Rhizomatous, greyish-sericeous, much branched shrubby climbers with pendulous, elongate, finely sulcate shoots. Leaves with curved petiole to c. 2.5 cm long; lamina elliptic-oblong, 2–6 (–7) cm long, 1–4 (–5) cm wide, basally cuneate to obtuse, entire, ± undulate when dry, acute, glabrous to slightly sericeous above, densely sericeous beneath. Capitula subsessile, in lax panicle; involucre 3–4 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide; bracts ovate to oblong-obovate, thinly puberulous, tinged pale-purple towards obtuse apices. Corolla 5–6 mm long; limb pinkish; lobes 5, c. 2 mm long, sparsely glandular. Achenes clavate, 1.8–2.3 mm long, pale brownish, densely and minutely glandular. Pappus bristles numerous, 4.5–5.5 mm long, white.
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