Woody herb or weak shrub, trailing, scrambling or scandent, 0.6-3.6 m high; stems arching, pubescent with mostly short T-shaped hairs. Leaves petiolate or rarely sessile with petioloid base, dark green or deep glossy green, ovate or (narrowly) lanceolate, 2-13 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, base rounded to cuneate, margins sinuate-denticulate, apex attenuate-acuminate, apiculate, thinly scattered pubescent and ± glabrescent above, thinly finely pubescent especially on veins beneath, densely glandular with sessile glands; petiole 0.3-2.5 cm long. Capitula in spreading terminal divaricate corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula shortly ascending-pubescent, sometimes also with longer spreading hairs; involucre ovoid-cylindrical, 4-6.5 mm long, 3-3.8 mm in diameter at flowering time; phyllaries 2-3-seriate, green and sometimes purple-tipped, slightly spreading, lanceolate or less often elliptic, 1-6 mm long, acute to attenuate, ascending-pubescent, glandular. Florets 14-20 per capitulum; corolla white, pale mauve, lilac, mauve or purple, 5-8 mm long, lobes 1.5-2.8 mm long, with fine silky hairs below the apex. Achenes cylindric, 1.5-2.7 mm long, terete or subterete, shortly ascending-pubescent and glandular; outer pappus of narrow lanceolate scales, 0.2-1.2 mm long, inner pappus white, 3-6 mm long. Fig. 38/4 (involucre), p. 168.
