Perennial herbs or shrubs, erect or ascending, to 1 m tall; internodes ribbed, glandular-hairy. Leaves with petiole 5–15 mm long; lamina oblong to ovate-lanceolate or rhombic-ovate, 2–10 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, tapering to base, entire or crenate-serrate, obtuse or ± acuminate, pubescent and glandular on both sides, dull grey-green. Capitula 20–25-flowered; peduncles 1.2–1.5 cm long, in a dichasium-like panicle; involucre oblong, 4.5–5.5 mm long; bracts oblong, densely glandular hairy, outer bracts linear, with long, articulate hairs; inner bracts lanceolate, 5–6 mm long, sparsely hairy, long-acuminate. Florets pink-mauve or light violet; corolla c. 4.5 mm long; lobes acute, apically hairy; anthers glandular; style branches short. Achenes oblong, 1.5–2 mm long, inconspicuously 4-or 5-ribbed, densely white appressed-hairy. Pappus outer bristles scaly, oblong-lanceolate, c. 0.5 mm long; inner bristles c. 4 mm long.
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