Tree to 6 m, with stout trunk. Leaves: petiole 3-7 mm long, glabrous; lamina elliptic to lanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 14-22 mm wide, pungent, usually strongly curved, woolly in small pits below; margins flat or gently recurved, serrate; teeth triangular, 1-6 each side. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts ovate to narrowly lanceolate; outer bracts subulate; inner bracts acute, to 15 mm long, appressed-pubescent in upper half, densely ciliate; flowers 110-180 per head. Perianth 22-28 mm long, yellow, shortly villous; limb 3 mm long, villous. Pistil incurved, 28-32 mm long, yellow, pubescent in lowest 1/4, glabrous above; pollen presenter scarcely thickened, 1 mm long, ±smooth, pale green. Follicles obliquely ovate to obovate, 8-15 mm long, ±glabrous, ±firmly attached, opening when mature.
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