Shrub, 5 ft. high; twigs somewhat floccose with stellate hairs, soon glabrous. Leaves petioled, membranous, ovate, acute, base rounded or slightly cordate, margin crenate-toothed, 1–1 3/4 in. long, 1/3–1 in. wide, when young stellate-pilose, soon glabrescent and pilose-scabrous only along the nerves; petiole slender, 1/3– 2/3 in. long, sparingly stellate-pilose; stipules lanceolate, subentire, uncinate, 1 lin. long. Heads globose, terminal, 1/3 in. across; peduncles 1/6– 1/5 in. long, rusty-pubescent; female pedicels 5–6, subumbellate, erect, 1/5 in. long. Male: Calyx tomentose; lobes wide ovate, subacute; rudimentary ovary 2-lobed. Female: Sepals tomentose, pinnatipartite. Ovary tomentose; styles shortly connate at the stellate-hairy base, glabrous and much divided upwards.