Shrub or tree to 4 m tall; twigs stout, tomentose with elongate, ascending, mostly appressed, yellowish brown hairs. Leaves alternate, elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, veins 6-7 on each side of the midvein, conspicuously elevated and fine-reticulate beneath, glabrescent above, pilose beneath, tomentose on the veins, drying with a dusty brown appearance; petioles stout, 1-5 mm long, narrowly winged but more or less distinct from the blade. Inflorescence a large, many-headed flat-or round-topped panicle; rachis and peduncles stout, tomentose, drying brown; bracteoles linear, small, variously situated. Heads globose, ca. 7 mm long, radiate; involucral bracts in about 2 unequal series, the innermost ca. 4 mm long, evenly appressed pilose over the dorsal surface, not conspicuously ciliate; paleas resembling the involucral bracts but longer; ray florets ca. 8, the corolla yellow, the limb 4-6 mm long, dorsally pubescent in the basal half, dentate, the tube pilose, 1-2 mm long, the ovary laterally flattened, 1.2-1.5 mm long, fusiform, stipitate, ciliate and ascending pubescent, the pappus of 2 short awns; disc florets 6 7 mm long, the corolla broadly tubular, the tube short, pilose, the limb basally pilose, the lobes deltoid, anthers dark with dark appendages, ca. 2 mm long, the style branches puberulent, truncate with a short but evident caudate appendix, the style base narrowed into the minute nectary, the ovary laterally compressed, ciliate, with two short awns. Achene not seen.
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