Perennial, tuberous-rooted herb to 1 m high. Indumentum of vegetative surfaces white-or grey-pubescent or woolly. Leaves with petiole 5–12 mm long; lamina lanceolate to obovate, 30–115 mm long, 12–30 mm wide, entire or shortly and broadly lobed, discolorous, glabrous above. Capitula ± heterochromous; involucral bracts lanceolate. Ray florets 10–21; ligule discolorous, white or cream above, pink beneath, sparsely and minutely papillate with twin-hairs. Disc florets 20–40, off-white; tube glabrous, white or pale green; anthers 5–7 mm long including basal appendages 1.5–2.5 mm long, sparsely papillate to smooth; style branches ligulate, 1.1–1.7 mm long. Achenes cylindric, villous with twin hairs. Pappus of 60–70 uniseriate, barbellate setae, 8.5–12.0 mm long, white or cream.
Grows in stony sand and clay soils over laterite, granite and limestone in low shrubland, sedgeland and woodland, and on the margins of seasonally wet depressions and river embankments.
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