Scandent subshrub or shrub to 3m with white-tomentose stems. Leaves to 175mm x 115mm with mucronate-serrate margins, glabrous or hirsute above & white tomentose beneath. Umbels or corymbs with 50+ flowerheads, 25-30 ray florets with yellow glabrescent or pubescent corolla to 8.5mm long, 20-30 disc florets with yellow pubescent corolla to 6.5mm long. Achenes to 0.85mm x 0.35mm, pale yellow to yellow-orange pappus bristles, outer series to 1.5mm long, inner series to 4.7mm long. Black hairs on leaves caused by a fungus.