Sprawling shrub to 1 m with lignotuber, or erect to 2.5 m without lignotuber. Stems closely pubescent. Leaves sessile or with petiole to 2 mm long; lamina broadly linear, pinnatipartite, 4-9 cm long, 12-30 mm wide, acute, pungent, glabrous below except fine pits; margins flat to slightly recurved; lobes 5-12 each side, triangular, slightly falcate, pungent. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet or terminal; involucral bracts ovate to linear, 30-35 mm long, obtuse; outer bracts ±glabrous; inner bracts appressed-pubescent, ciliate; flowers 30-60 per head. Perianth 32-35 mm long, deep yellow, hirsute; limb 7-8.5 mm long, glabrescent towards apex. Pistil straight to gently incurved, 39-47 mm long, yellow, hirsute in lower third; pollen presenter 4.5-6 mm long, finely ribbed. Follicles ovate to obovate, 8-13 mm long, loosely hirsute.
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