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Erect or ascending perennial herb up to 1 m high, sometimes scrambling, often with slen­der shoots from a woody base, up to 50 mm in diameter. Stems often rooting at lower nodes, with long, dense, patent, often pale golden yel­low hairs, glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 60-125 x 40-70 mm, apical tooth longer than broad, base broadly cuneate, mar­gin with 10-23 pairs of teeth, both surfaces with fairly dense scattered hairs, these denser on veins of lower surface; petiole slender, (20-)40-80 mm long, densely patent-hairy; stipules prominent, lanceolate, 5-10 x 1.5-3.0 mm, membranous, persistent, apex attenuate and recurved, base sessile and cordate, with long hairs on margin and midrib. Female flow­ers hairy, ± 2 mm long. Male flowers with perianth deeply 4-lobed, acuminate, hairy, ± 2.5 mm long. Achenes fusiform, 1.5-2.5 mm long, enclosed in hairy accrescent perianth; seed pale cream, smooth, glistening.

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Erect or ascending perennial herb up to 1 m high, sometimes scrambling, often with slen­der shoots from a woody base, up to 50 mm in diameter. Stems often rooting at lower nodes, with long, dense, patent, often pale golden yel­low hairs, glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 60-125 x 40-70 mm, apical tooth longer than broad, base broadly cuneate, mar­gin with 10-23 pairs of teeth, both surfaces with fairly dense scattered hairs, these denser on veins of lower surface; petiole slender, (20-)40-80 mm long, densely patent-hairy; stipules prominent, lanceolate, 5-10 x 1.5-3.0 mm, membranous, persistent, apex attenuate and recurved, base sessile and cordate, with long hairs on margin and midrib. Female flow­ers hairy, ± 2 mm long. Male flowers with perianth deeply 4-lobed, acuminate, hairy, ± 2.5 mm long. Achenes fusiform, 1.5-2.5 mm long, enclosed in hairy accrescent perianth; seed pale cream, smooth, glistening.