Shrub to 1.5 m tall, without lignotuber. Stems erect, with appressed, lanceolate, villous prophylls. Leaves: petiole 5-15 cm long; lamina pinnatifid to pinnatisect, 15-90 cm long, 2.5-7.5 cm wide, rusty-tomentose, glabrescent except pits in lower surface; margins slightly recurved; lobes 10-22 each side, triangular to oblong, with margins curved in to obtuse apex and in lower 1/8-1/4 to sinus, somewhat twisted so that upper surface is uppermost, prominently nerved below, bluish green above. Inflorescence terminal, with a few lanceolate, entire or pinnatifid leaf-like bracts 5-7 cm long around involucre; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, to 15 mm long, rusty-villous; flowers 60-100 per head. Perianth 37-56 mm long, pale yellow, commonly rusty on limb; claws slender, curled-tomentose; limb 11-14 mm long, acute, silky, with longer terminal tuft. Pistil incurved, 43-69 mm long, stout, cream or red, glabrous; pollen presenter ±fusiform, 6.5-10 mm long, prominently ribbed. Follicles offset-elliptic to obovate, 16-20 mm long, glabrous.
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