Sometimes climbing subshrub or shrub to 3m with white-tomentose pubescent stems. Leaves to 165mm x 55mm, with mucronate-serrate margins, glabrescent above white-tomentose beneath. Umbels or corymbs with 50-60 flower heads in 5-6 series, 20-30 ray florets with yellow corollas to 8mm long, tube to 3.5mm long & limb to 4.5mm x 1mm. 25-35 pubescent disc florets with yellow corolla to 6.5mm long, tube 2.5mm x 0.2mm. Achenes 1mm x 0.35mm with yellowish pappus bristles, outer series to 1.7mm long, inner series to 5.5mm.