A shrub or tree up to 13 ft. high; branches very densely grey tomentose when young, glabrescent. Leaves rather dense, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, rarely slightly rounded, tapering to the base, 2 1/4–4 1/4 in. long, 9–13 lin. wide, subcoriaceous, sessile by a broad base; nerves scarcely conspicuous in young leaves, loosely and irregularly reticulate, equally prominent on both surfaces, marginal percurrent. Heads terminal on the branches, up to 3 in. in diam.; bracts very numerous, densely imbricate, lower 2 lin. long, ovate, acute, uppermost nearly 1 in. long and 5 lin. wide, densely and shortly silvery silky outside, glabrous within, ovate, rounded at the apex. Perianth silvery, very densely long yellowish silky, 1 1/2 in. long. Style much elongated after flowering, 2 in. long, thick and coriaceous.
