Shrub or tree up to 4 m. tall; branchlets angular. Lvs ± 4-8 × ± 2-4 cm. including petiole up to 2 cm. long, broad- to elliptic-ovate, acute, subcoriac.; glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed satiny tomentum below; margins distantly sinuate-dentate to subentire. Corymbs large, effuse; pedicels slender, pubescent. Capitula up to 7 mm. long, 1·5 cm. diam.; phyll. imbricate, oblong-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, outer pilose on back, inner glab. except at tips and on margins. Florets 15-20; ray-florets 7-10 with a short broad ray. Achenes narrow-linear, c. 2 mm. long, compressed, pilose, striate; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long.

2n = 108