Shrub to 1 m across with prostrate stems, with lignotuber. Stems tomentose, with scattered linear to narrowly triangular glabrescent prophylls. Leaves: petiole 2-6 mm long; lamina deeply pinnatipartite, with uppermost lobes usually also pinnatipartite, 7-15 cm long, 3-8 cm wide; margins revolute; lobes linear, acute, loosely hirsute and shortly pubescent but glabrescent above, tomentose below. Inflorescence terminal, sometimes several clustered, subtended by leaves; involucral bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, pale to dark-rusty hirsute to pubescent-tomentose, glabrous towards apex; innermost bracts 20-30 mm long; flowers 50-70 per head. Perianth 24-25 mm long (outer) to 21 mm long (inner), pale pink at base, mauve above, sparsely hirsute above base with sticky hairs at 90°; claw very slender; limb 2-3 mm long, grey-brown or gold, hirsute. Pistil incurved, 29-40 mm long, cream or pink, sparsely hairy in lower half; pollen presenter slightly swollen at base, 0.7-1 mm long, green. Follicles broadly and obliquely obovate with narrowed base, 10-11 mm long, sparsely hairy.
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