Shrub to 1.3 m, without lignotuber. Stems hirsute and tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 1-2 mm long; lamina narrowly obovate to narrowly cuneate, incurved, 1-3.5 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, acute, pungent, tomentose below; margins recurved, sparsely serrate; teeth 1-4 each side in upper third, to 3 mm long. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts narrowly triangular to subulate above thick base, to 13 mm long, tomentose-plumose; inner bracts almost glabrous in lower half; flowers 75-100 per head. Perianth 10-20 mm long, creamy white, often tinged pink, glabrous, sometimes with coarse erect hairs on limb; limb 4-5.5 mm long. Pistil gently incurved, 16-23 mm long, almost white, glabrous; pollen presenter cylindrical, 1.5-2 mm long, obscurely ribbed. Follicles transversely elliptic to obovate, 8-11 mm long, densely silky but glabrescent.
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