Liane or scandent shrub up to 8 m. amongst scrub, with stout woody base up to 2 cm. diam., sparingly branched below, with ∞ slender flexible branches above, not > 2 mm. diam. Juvenile and shade lvs spreading, up to 5 × 2 mm. on very short petioles, ovate-oblong, sub-coriac., subacute, mucronate, margins thickened; glab. above when mature, clad in white cobwebby tomentum below; mid lvs similar, but smaller and often reflexed. Lvs of final branchlets imbricate, appressed, linear-lanceolate, c. 3 × 1 mm., keeled on back and tomentose when young, clad in dense white woolly tomentum below. Capitula terminal, up to 3·5 mm. diam.; phyll. in several series forming a subcylindric involucre; outer oblong, pilose; inner narrow-oblong, scarious on margins, stramineous with brown tips. Florets 15-25 (all perfect?); achenes narrow-oblong, glab., pappus-hairs slender, ∞.

2n = 28

2n = 28

Scandent shrub or liane up to 8 m amongst scrub; branchlets (with appressed lvs) c. 1-1.5 mm diam. Lvs of 2 forms confined to distinct sections of stem; appressed lvs ± imbricate, sparsely to moderately brownish white-tomentose on lower, outer surface, becoming partly glabrous, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, elliptic-ovate to narrow-oblong, involute, acute, 2-4 × 0.7-1.5 mm; spreading to reflexed lvs densely white-tomentose on lower surface, glabrous on upper, apetiolate, broad- to oblong-elliptic, revolute, obtuse and mucronate, 2.5-5-(7) × 1.5-2.5 mm. Capitula 3-5 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts almost glabrous to tomentose on lamina, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, not or slightly radiating, with greenish and opaque stereome and broad, transparent, membranous margins, c. 5 mm long. Disc pale yellow. Achenes glabrous, angled, 1.5-2 mm long.