Stock stout, clad in brownish silky hairs. Lvs spreading to suberect, elliptic- to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, obtuse, coriac.; lamina ± 2.5-15 × 3-10 cm., obtuse, cordate to obliquely cordate at base; upper surface of young lvs with ∞ slender early-deciduous hairs mingled with hispid ones that remain till old age; lower surface densely clad in soft woolly white long-persistent tomentum; petiole 3-10 cm. long, stout, invested at base with long brownish hairs, and above with soft whitish tomentum with few to ∞ glandular hairs. Scapes simple or branched, up to 35 cm. tall, ± clad in soft tomentum mingled with glandular hairs; bracts few, linear, obtuse. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam., ligules yellow, up to 2 cm. long; phyll. acute, glandular and tomentum on back. Pappus-hairs stiff, barbellate, up to 5 mm. long; achenes c. 5 mm. long, linear.