Shrub to 1.5 m, often columnar, without lignotuber. Stems hirsute and tomentose. Leaves: petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina pinnatipartite, 5-9 cm long, 15-28 (-50) mm wide, pungent, appressed-pubescent above, soon glabrous, tomentose below, ±reticulate; margins shortly recurved; lobes to 11 each side, linear or lanceolate, pungent. Inflorescence terminal or on short branchlet, ±sessile; involucral bracts lanceolate to linear, obtuse, to 25 mm long, tomentose-hirsute; flowers c. 100-120 per head. Perianth 29-34 mm long, yellow with pink base, hirsute, with limb pubescent, sometimes glabrous at apex; limb 6-8 (-10) mm long. Pistil curved, 32-42 mm long, pale yellow, hirsute below middle; pollen presenter 3-6 mm long, ribbed. Follicles obliquely elliptic with basal lateral notch, 7-11 mm long, glabrous except a few caducous hairs.
Home