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Leaves with petioles to c. 3 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, up to c. 13 x 3.2 cm., oblonceolate to ± narrowly elliptic, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margins irregularly serrate to subserrate, upper surface scabridulous or glabrescent, lower surface finely puberulous and prominently closely reticulate.
An erect slender perennial herb, or subshrub to c. 2 m. tall from a large woody rootstock; tuberous-rooted? Stems usually solitary, becoming woody below, simple, branching only near the apex, leafy, ± appressed grey-tomentose, becoming puberulous below, glandular; hairs ± short-stalked flagelliform.
Achenes dark-brown when mature, c. 4 mm. long, subcylindric-subfusiform, c. 10-ribbed, hispid; pappus several-seriate, copious, somewhat caducous, setae flattened barbellate increasing from c. 1 mm. long on the outside to c. 8 mm. long inside.
Capitula in numerous 3–9-capitulate clusters; clusters ± scorpioidly cymose along the branches; synflorescence branches divaricate, to c. 15 cm. long, leafy with leaves bract-like above, tomentellous; capitula stalks 0–10 mm. long.
Corollas pale mauve to white, 14–16 mm. long, slender-tubular below, abruptly dilated into a cylindric limb exserted beyond the pappus.
Involucres 10–12 x 7–14 mm., ± narrowly cylindric-campanulate.
Florets c. 5 per capitulum.
