Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets, petioles, lvs below and infl-branchlets clad in dense fulvous to ferruginous tomentum. Lvs 7·5-17 cm. × 8 mm.-2.5 cm. including petiole up to 1 cm. long, linear to linear-oblong, acute to acuminate, very coriac., rugose above, margins somewhat revolute, minutely sinuate-dentate; midrib very stout, lateral veins stout, at almost right angles, giving surface a somewhat alveolate appearance. Capitula ∞, up to 1 cm. diam., on slender pedicels, in corymbs; phyll. in 3-4 series, rather laxly imbricate, tomentose to villous on back, lower ovate, upper oblong; florets 8-12, ray-florets broad. Achenes grooved, 2-3 mm. long, linear, pilose; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 4 mm. long.