Rarely climbing woody herb or shrub to 4.5m with lenticellate or tuberculate stems. Leaves to 350mm x 125mm with serrate margins, pubescent above & tomentose beneath. Terminal cymes to 16mm long with phyllaries to 13mm long, mayve or lilac corolla fading to white 14mm long with lobes to 2mm long. Achenes to 4.2mm long, pappus to 9.5mm long.