Sub-shrub or climber to 30m with lenticellate floccose angular branches. Bicoloured mucronate denticulate leaves scabrous or glabrate above white-tomentose beneath to 200mm x 140mm. Terminal cymose panicles with puberulent bracts, flower heads to 12mm high with bracts, 5-8 yellow ray florets to 6mm long, 10-15 yellow disc florets, , glabrous yellowish corolla to 8mm long with tube to 2mm long & lobes to 1mm. Hirsute 10-ribbed strigose achenes to 2.5mm long with pappus bristles to 7mm long.