Erect or sometimes scandent shrub to 3m. Hairy branches. Serrulate leaves to 80mm x 40mm, scabrous above & hispid beneath. Cymose panicles, pistillate heads with 17-29 pistillate flowers & 1-7 hermaphrodite flowers, staminate heads with 17-38 hermaphrodite flowers & 12-14 pistillate flowers. Hirsute achenes to 2.5mm long with sordid pappus to 4mm long,