Shrubby plant 1.5 m tall; stems shortly pubescent with appressed-ascending simple hairs.. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate-elliptic, 12 cm long, 3 cm wide, cuneate into short petioloid base, margins finely serrate, apex acuminate, apiculate, rather coriaceous, subglabrous.. Capitula numerous in compound terminal corymbiform cymes; involucre 6-6.5 mm long, 5-flowered; phyllaries 3-4-seriate, ovate, the inner narrowly (ob-)ovate, 5.7-6.3 mm long, acuminate-apiculate, ciliate on margins in upper part, the apices of outer and median recurving.. Mature florets unknown; corolla lobes with short stiff hairs along their lengths.. Achenes (immature) 10-ribbed, pubescent; pappus (immature) tawny, 5 mm long.
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