Shrub, with short underground fire-tolerant stems. Leaves: petiole 1-4 cm long, pubescent, glabrescent; lamina pinnatipartite, 12-20 cm long, 8-20 mm wide; lobes 25-40 each side, broadly triangular, usually markedly convex, obtuse to acute, with upper margin usually incurved to apex. Inflorescence often subtended by hirsute dwarf leaf-bracts; involucral bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acute, passing to broadly linear and obtuse, 20-28 mm long, green and orange-brown, rusty-pubescent; flowers 50-60 per head. Perianth 27-37 mm long, pale pinkish brown, shortly appressed-hirsute above base, passing to appressed-pubescent claws; limb 3-4 mm long, hirsute with shaggy apex. Pistil 41-47 mm long, lemon-yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter narrow, 1.3-1.5 mm long. Follicles obovate, 13-16 mm long, glabrous except apical and marginal hairs.
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