Shrub up to 3 m. tall, with slender flexuous branchlets tomentose when young. Lvs 1-2.5 × 1-2 cm. on flattened petioles c. 5 mm. long, sub-orbicular, entire with minute mucro, subcoriac., glab. above when mature, clad in dense soft white tomentum below. Infl. of closely clustered or solitary glomerules, each with 10-15 capitula c. 3-5 mm. diam., on very short tomentose pedicels. Phyll. in 3-4 series, oblong, lowermost tomentose without, upper scarious, brownish. Florets 10-15, ♀ very few or absent; achenes c. 0·5 mm. long, compressed, striate, linear, papillose, pubescent, areolate at base; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips.