Branches stout, blackish when dry; young branchlets finely and closely puberulous. Leaves flat, opposite, oblong-elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, very slightly connate at the base, 1-1.5 cm long, 3-7 mm broad, coriaceous, with finely scabrid-serrulate margins resembling the edge of a very fine saw, otherwise glabrous, frequently with 3 distinct parallel nerves from the base. Heads solitary, cylindric or cylindric-obconic, 3 cm long, about 1.5 cm across the top. Involucral bracts about 7-seriate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, chaffy with broad membranous margins, glabrous. Corolla 1.5 cm long, ribbed in the lower, a little expanded and slightly pubescent in the upper half; lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long. Achenes villous. Pappus straw-coloured, connate at the base into a ring, 1.5 cm long.
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