Bushy shrub, to 3 m, without lignotuber. Stems curled-pubescent and hirsute, glabrescent. Leaves crowded on lateral branchlets; petiole to 2 cm long, hirsute to pubescent; lamina linear, pinnatisect, 6-20 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, emarginate, mucronate, white-tomentose below; margins revolute; lobes c. 35 each side, triangular-falcate, overlapping, to 1.8 mm long. Inflorescence almost sessile on older stems, surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts linear-subulate from broad base, to 14 mm long, glabrous at base, then pubescent, then plumose; flowers 30-50 per head. Perianth c. 24 mm long, yellowish green, sparsely spreading-pubescent; limb 4 mm long, loosely hirsute. Pistil incurved, geniculate below pollen presenter, 38-42 mm long, yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly conical, 1.5-2 mm long, obscurely ribbed. Follicles 1 or 2 per head, almost orbicular to broadly obovate, with short obtuse lateral beak when open, 6-8 mm long, hirsute.
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