Erect, spreading herb to 1.5 m tall; branches slender, divaricate; roots short and fibrous. Leaves alternate or at the base opposite, to 9 cm long, ovate, apically acuminate or acute, basally rounded, obtuse or cuneate, the margins serrate, sometimes saliently so, 3-nerved from near the base, scabridulous with copious, stiff, ascending hairs; petiole slender, 5-30 mm long, an intrapetiolar ridge mostly present below. Inflorescences solitary heads on slender, to 6 cm long, apically tomentose peduncles. Heads radiate; involucral bracts 4-5, ovate, .foliaceous, mostly 6-11 mm long, apically obtuse, basally rounded, sessile, the margins entire, both sides grey-pubescent with ascending, appressed hairs; paleas slightly exceeding the ovary, enfolding the ovary and the edges connate to about halfway up, pilose, apically ca. 3-lobed, erose-pilose; ray florets several, the corollas yellow, ca. 20 mm long, the narrow, pilose tube forming 1,/ the length, the limb broadly ovate, apically 2-3-dentate, basally truncate, dorsally pubescent, ventrally uniform in color and texture, glabrous, the ovary sterile, pubescent, 2 mm long, pappus wanting; disc florets numerous, the corolla 13-14 mm long, the tube not differ-entiated, cylindrical but broadening slightly upwards, hispid, especially on the upper portion, the apical lobes 3 mm long, strigose, the ventral hairs below the expanded apex black, the apices yellow, thick, slightly expanded, dorsally white-strigose, ventrally verrucose, the anthers dark, the thecae 2 mm long, the append-ages narrowly lanceolate, 0.8 mm long, the bases obtuse or subauriculate, the style branches cylindrical, strigose, the style base expanded-globose, stipitate above the nectary, the ovary lenticular, glabrous, 1-1.5 mm long, dorsiventrally compressed, 2-nerved, the pappus wanting, the conical, glandular apex sur-mounted by a short cylindrical umbo and nectary, the carpopodium large. Fruit a globose-prismatic utricle, ca. 2 mm across, greenish or stamineous, the beak minute, apically tuberculate, sparingly white-pilose; achene reddish brown, faintly dark-striate, broadly turbinate, the base oblique; pappus wanting, the apex a hard, solid cylindrical peg, surmounted by a minute, cylindrical, disclike nectary; embryo broadly turbinate.
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