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Leaves membranous, petiolate; petiole 1–3 cm. long; lamina to 13 x 6 cm., ovate-lanceolate, apex tapering-acuminate, base broadly cuneate to truncate in upper leaves, cordate often unequally so in lower leaves, sometimes narrowly decurrent on petiole, margins serrate or serrulate, lamina upper surface sparsely pilose to scabridulous, lower surface thinly pilose; the hairs one-armed or unequal-armed T-shaped on upper surface and T-shaped beneath.
Involucres to c. 6 x 6 mm., spreading to c. 10 mm. wide, obconic-campanulate; phyllaries few-seriate, outer 2–4 mm. long and subulate to linear-lanceolate with a subulate apex, inner to 6 mm. long and narrowly oblong-elliptic, subacute mucronate or aristate, scarious sometimes with a hyaline margin, thinly pilose outside or glabrescent.
Capitula numerous, grouped in moderately dense clusters 3–6 cm. across, borne in the upper leaf axils, or capitula in large terminal compound panicles; synflorescence branches sparsely linear-bracteate; capitula stalks mostly 1–10 mm. long, sometimes to c. 40 mm. long, linear-bracteate, tomentellous to appressed-pubescent.
Achenes pale-brownish, 2.5–3 mm. long, narrowly subcylindric, tapering slightly to base, sharply narrowly 5-ribbed, glandular otherwise glabrous, at the most sparsely hispidulous; outer pappus fringe-like, of narrow minute lacerate scales, inner of white barbellate setae 5–6 mm. long.
Corollas pale-mauve to whitish, sweetly-scented, c. 6 mm. long, narrowly funnel-shaped, widening slightly to apex.
Branches alternate, striate, pubescent, glandular; indumentum of short-stalked T-shaped hairs.
A diffuse or scandent shrub with stems to c. 6 m. long.
Florets 15–20 per capitulum.
