Shrub with lignotuber. Stems underground, velvety. Leaves: petiole 5-21 cm long; lamina pinnatipartite with 10-30 linear lobes each side, 15-30 cm long, 4-16 cm wide; margins flat; both surfaces tomentose, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence 6-12 cm long; involucral bracts velvety. Flowers cream with brown limb and pale brown to white hairs; upper buds pink; styles cream. Perianth 23-30 mm long including limb of 2.5-3 mm, hirsute outside, glabrous inside except a few hairs in upper half; limb hirsute, glabrescent. Pistil curved, 25-35 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter ovoid, 0.5-0.8 mm long. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 15, elliptic, 25-40 mm long, 12-20 mm high, 15-20 mm wide, smooth, tomentose. Seed obovate, 27-36 mm long; seed body cuneate, 11-17 mm long, 14-22 mm wide, smooth inside, pitted outside.
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