Descriptions : VineScandent vine; stem covered with appressed hairs; leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, elliptic, with entire margin; apex obtuse; lower surface densely covered with hairs, feeling like velvet; upper surface glabrous; inflorescence a panicle-like arrangement of heads, hairy; head with overlapping involucral bracts, with hairs outside; flowers all disk flowers; pappus a ring of bristles; corolla tubular with 5 lobes, lavender; stamens 5, introrse, the anthers with an apical extension and sagittate base; ovary inferior; style with 2 stigma lobes.
