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Leaf-lamina 10–35 × 6–25 mm., elliptic, ovate, oblong or somewhat obovate to suborbicular, apex obtuse to rounded, margin rather coarsely serrate-crenate, base usually cuneate to rounded, both surfaces densely grey-green-tomentose, the lower surface slightly paler and usually with longer hairs; petiole 2–10 mm. long, tomentose; stipules filiform, often somewhat patent, tomentose.
A herb or shrub. It is erect and keeps growing from year to year. It grows 90 cm high. It is hairy. The leaves are 2-5 cm long and 1-4 cm wide. They are oval and have coarse teeth. They are dark green above and ash grey underneath. The flowers are white and in the axils of leaves. They occur singly or in pairs.
Mericarps 7–8, c. 4 mm. long, birostrate, separating at dehiscence, dorsally rugulose and very faintly cross-veined, laterally reticulate-striate; awns 2, c. 1 mm. long, often connivent, setaceous, pungent.
Suberect suffrutex up to c. 50 cm. tall, densely grey-or grey-green-tomentose; branches sometimes decumbent; stems terete or somewhat angular when young, wiry, at length glabrescent and somewhat woody.
Calyx c. 6 mm. long, subglobose-campanulate, 10-ribbed, tomentose, lobed to about the middle; lobes broad, subacute to shortly apiculate.
Flowers yellow, axillary, solitary or occasionally 2–3-fasciculate, subsessile or pedicellate; pedicels up to 5 (9) mm. long.
Small shrub, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves yellowish grey-green tomentose. Flowers yellow.
Seeds c. 2 × 1·5 mm., rather tumid, nearly smooth, glabrous.
A rather hoary woody herb, 2 ft. or more high
Petals not much exceeding the calyx.
Flowers yellow.
