Scrambling shrub; twigs slender, drying longitudinally striate, tomentose with fine hairs and stout, ascending white hairs, glabrescent. Leaves opposite, to 15 cm long, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, ovate to lanceolate, apically acute or acuminate, basally obtuse, the margins serrulate, the veins pinnate, ca. 5 on each side of the midrib, drying darker above, scabridulous, soft tomentose beneath; petioles mostly S-10 mm long, tomentose, canaliculate above. Inflorescence an open panicle with few or many heads, umbelliform; bracts foliaceous, opposite; bracteoles subfoliaceous or scalelike, sometimes alternate on the peduncles or associated with the heads and forming an outer whorl of involucral bracts. Heads compressed-globose; involucre ca. 1.5 mm across, the outermost bracts 4-10 mm long, apically or entirely oblong-lanceolate, green, somewhat recurving, the inner series broader, mostly shorter, ovate, basally indurate, dorsally appressed pubes-cent, ciliate; paleas 6 mm long, scarious, apically pubescent, enfolding the floret; ray florets ca. 12 in one series, the corolla yellow, the ligule ca. 5 mm long, ovate, minutely denticulate, glabrous, the tube glabrous, ca. 5 mm long, the style branches small, ovary fertile, 3-awned; disc florets numerous, 8 mm long, the corolla yellow, 6 mm long, the tube lighter, glabrous, forming almost half the length, apical lobes puberulent dorsally, the anthers dark with dark appendages, basally auriculate, the style branches ascending-pilose with a minute appendage, the stigmatic lines running the full length of the branches, the style base not expanded, inserted in a narrow, cylindrical, apically irregular, 1 mm long nectary, the ovary fertile, strongly laterally compressed, the angles long-pilose, slightly constricted apically with two stout, ascending-strigose awns which exceed the corolla, the pappus of a ring of squamellae. Achene bodies black, ca. 3 mm long, surrounded by corky, 1 mm thick, sparingly pilose wings, and surmounted by the squamellate pappus and sometimes by one or two weak awns.
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