Shrubby. Shoots, young parts and underside of leaves velutinous-tomentose, ferruginous. Branches straight, large, spreading, terete, striate, alternate or rarely opposite. Leaves alternate or occasionally opposite, lanceolate or elongate, acute, narrowed to a subsessile base, serrate, glabrescent above, ranging up to 5 in. long by 1 1/8 in. wide. Capitula campanulate or at length hemispherical, 20–30-flowered, 1/3– 2/3 in. wide, on unequal pedicels varying up to 3/4 in. long, in a lax wide corymbose cyme. Scales of the involucre softly pubescent outside, appressed, dark at the tip, persistent; outer ovate acute; inner oblong, blunt, intermediate narrowly elliptic. Receptacle naked. Corolla gradually narrowed; lobes lanceolate-prolonged, acute. Anthers deltoidly produced at both ends. Pollen globose, echinate. Achenes oblong or subturbinate, slightly or scarcely narrowed downwards, 1/10 in. long, not callus-based, shortly finely and patently hispid in about 10 series, minutely glandular, terete, about 10-costate. Pappus pluriseriate, rufescent, minutely barbellate, setæ compressed, subdilated; outer series successively shorter, outermost very short, subpaleaceous.
