Shrub or liana with strigose to glabrate stems.Toothed leaves to 170mm x 70mm, scabrous to glabrate above & pubescent beneath. Inflorescence with small bracts, inflorescence of up to 22 florets, reddish-purple to greenish phyllaries, glabrous corolla to 7mm long, reddish-purple fading to whitish. Strigose ribbed achenes 2.5mm long, white pappus bristles 6mm long