Stem erect, from a woody base, with ascending branches above, striate, hirsute or pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong obovate-oblong, entire or denticulate or more or less coarsely dentate-serrate, obtuse, mucronate, membranous, thinly pubescent or puberulous; upper sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, lower narrowed into a broadly winged petiole, 2–4 in. long, 1/2–1 1/2 in. wide. Capitula very small, orange-coloured, campanulate, at length hemispherical, 1/20 to 1/12 in. long, on short pedicels in dense cymes, collected in ample terminal corymbiform panicles. Involucral scales pauciseriate, linear, acute, glabrous or nearly so, 1-nerved. Receptacle naked. Anther-base obtuse. Ligule elliptic or obovate, equalling or exceeding the style. Achenes compressed, thinly pilose.
