Shrub to 1.3 m, without lignotuber, densely leaved. Leaves with slender petiole, 2-6 cm long; lamina broadly linear, 10-20 cm long, 5-13 mm wide, acute, serrate; margins revolute; teeth 10-25 each side, triangular, oblique, acute, pungent. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts ovate (outer) to broadly linear (inner), 4-5 cm long, obtuse, appressed-pubescent, shining dark red-brown; flowers c. 60 per head. Perianth 38-41 mm long, yellow, succulent and shortly hirsute above base, glabrous distally; limb 7-9 mm long, loosely hirsute. Pistil 44-46 mm long, yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter narrow, 5-6 mm long, ribbed. Follicles elliptic-obovate, 15 mm long, glabrous.
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