Small tree c. 3 m high with soft stout trunk and branches. Leaves with shining lamina and whitish midrib and veins; petiole slightly mealy, deeply canaliculate. Inflor. whitish-mealy, including capitula. Phyllaries very disimilar; long narrow oblong inner ones c. 2.5 cm long. Capitula c. 5 cm diam. across florets, these bright orange with rays c. 2.5 cm long. Several plants.