Plants scandent, with dense cover of long-armed, T-shaped hairs on stem, underside of leaves and peduncles. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, oblong to elliptic, entire to remotely denticulate, almost glabrous and green above; secondary veins pinnate, 4–6, irregularly arching toward apices. Capitula terminal, in small, ± dense clusters, on branch and branchlet apices in a narrow thyrsoid synflorescense; involucre oblong-cylindric; bracts imbricate, 4–5-seriate; receptacle glabrous, epaleate. Florets c. 5; corolla funnelform, pale purple, fading to white, glandular; anthers tailed with minimal basal fringe; apical appendage narrowly oblong; style base widened with annulus of sclerified cells; upper shaft and branches of style with obtuse sweeping hairs. Achenes usually 5-angled, glabrous, glandular; carpopodium nearly cylindrical. Pappus uniseriate; bristles widening distally, delicate.
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