Herbaceous? Branches terete, striate, puberulous. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, acute, slightly narrowed at base, distantly denticulate, glabrate above, shortly tomentellous beneath, petiolate, (upper) about 2 1/4 in. long by 1 in. wide; lateral arching veins and net-veins delicately marked beneath; margins slightly reflexed; petioles about 1/3 in. long, somewhat dilated at base. Capitula campanulate, many-flowered, 1/6– 1/5 in. long, on short pedicels, in dense branched corymbose cymes 1–3 in. diam. Scales of involucre multiseriate, imbricated, obtuse; inner linear, glabrous; outer oval-oblong, puberulous, successively shorter. Receptacle narrow, plano-convex, scarcely naked. Ray-florets ligulate; ligule about equalling pappus. Achenes shining, scattered with minute setæ. Pappus reddish, scabrous.
