Small tree. Branches robust, striate, buds densely ferruginous tomentose. Petiole stout, 3-7 mm, densely ferruginous tomentose; leaf blade ovate-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, 11-18 × 3-7.5 cm, leathery or thinly leathery, brownish when dry, abaxially densely brownish fulvous tomentose, adaxially puberulent, glabrescent later, lateral veins 18-20, midrib and lateral veins abaxially prominent, reticulate veins prominent on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin obscurely denticulate and callose-mucronulate, apex shortly acuminate or acute. Synflorescences terminal and subterminal, panicles flat-topped, subglobose. Capitula 8 or 9, up to 30 mm in diam.; peduncle 1.5-4 cm, densely fulvous tomentose; bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Involucre obconical, ca. 25 × 30 mm; phyllaries 7-or 8-seriate, leathery, outer ovate, 3-4 × 2-2.5 mm, median ovate-oblong, 8-10 × ca. 4 mm, inner oblong, 15-17 × 2.5-3 mm, densely yellowish tomentose and glandular, apex rounded. Florets many; corolla reddish, ca. 12 mm, glandular and puberulent; lobes lanceolate, 3-4 mm, apex white pilose. Achenes cylindric, 7-8 mm, 10-ribbed, sparsely adpressed puberulent and glandular. Pappus 2-seriate, sordid white; outer setae few, scalelike; inner setae ca. 11 mm, scabrid. Fl. Jun.
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