[3] Robert Elias Fries, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the gleaming (micans in Latin) hairs on the undersides of its leaves.

The young, branches have dense, rust-colored, soft, silky hairs.

Its petioles are 3-5 millimeters long, and covered in soft, silky hairs, with a narrow groove on their upper side.

The flowers are on pedicel that are 2-3 millimeters long and covered in gold-colored silky hairs.

The lower surfaces of the outer petals are covered in silky hairs that lay flat above the base; the upper surface has tufts of soft, white, woolly hairs.