Shrub to 70 cm, much-branched and bushy, without lignotuber. Leaves dark green; petiole 1.5-3 cm long, often hirsute; lamina pinnatisect or almost so, 15-35 cm long, 10-16 mm wide; margins shortly recurved; lobes 40-75 each side, ±oblong, acute to obtuse, with upper margin strongly curved in to apex, white-tomentose below; sinuses V-shaped, 3-8 mm across. Inflorescence subtended by filiform hirsute 'bracts'; involucral bracts oblong, to 22-25 mm long, obtuse, pubescent to ±glabrous; flowers 55-70 per head. Perianth 28-39 mm long, pink, hirsute in lower half with dense, curled hairs along midrib, appressed-hirsute in upper half; limb 2 mm long, coarsely hirsute, grey-brown. Pistil 41-54 mm long, deep red; pollen presenter thickened at base, 0.6-0.8 mm long. Follicles obovate, narrowed at base, 12-14 mm long, glabrous except a few long apical hairs.
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