Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall; branches stout, grooved; branchlets and infl.-branchlets clad in dense pale buff to whitish tomentum. Lvs very coriac., entire, obliquely broadly oblong to suborbicular, midrib and main veins prominent below; glab. above, clad in dense appressed tomentum below; lamina 4-10 × 4-9 cm., on stout grooved petiole up to 5 cm. long. Panicles up to 20 cm. long, lower bracts foliaceous. Capitula campanulate, up to 1 cm. diam., discoid, on stout tomentose pedicels. Phyll. linear, obtuse, coriac., woolly-tomentose on back. ♀ few, disk-florets ∞.Achenes angled, 2.5 mm. long, linear-oblong, glab. or with sparse hispid hairs; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, rigid, barbellate.

2n = 60