Shrub to 1.5 m, with or without lignotuber, often sprawling. Stems hirsute and pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 3-5 mm long, glabrescent; lamina pinnatifid, narrowly cuneate to narrowly obovate, linear, oblong or elliptic, 2-8 cm long, 8-25 mm wide, acute, pungent, tomentose only in pits; margins flat, deeply serrate; lobes 5-13 each side, obliquely triangular, slightly falcate, pungent, to 9 mm long. Inflorescence on short branchlet; involucral bracts ovate to linear, obtuse, to 15-25 mm long, tomentose, pubescent or hirsute in upper half, glabrous or almost so below; floral bracts glabrous; flowers c. 45-70 per head. Perianth ±straight, 25-39 mm long, yellow, with short crisped hairs immediately above base, hirsute distally; limb glabrous in upper ½ or throughout; limb 4-5 mm long. Pistil straight to curved, 28-42 mm long, cream to yellow, hirsute in lower 1/4-1/3; pollen presenter narrow, 2.5-4.5 mm long, ribbed. Follicles obliquely ovate, 9-10 mm long, hirsute at base.
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