Shrub up to 2 m. tall; branchlets slender, pubescent, striate. Lvs glab., membr., 2.5-5 × 2 cm., on slender petioles c. 1 cm. long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rather finely crenate-serrate. Corymbs crowded; lower bracts foliaceous; capitula c. 12, up to 1 cm. diam., turbinate, on slender pubescent pedicels. Ray-florets few (us.1-3), ligules yellow, 7·5 mm. long, broad. Phyll. oblong, midrib pubescent, margins broad, scarious. Achenes angled, pubescent, .becoming nearly glab., 2-2.5 mm. long; pappus-hairs stiff, slender, up to 5 mm. long, finely barbellate.