Shrub with prostrate stems, with lignotuber. Stems ±on surface, tomentose, with broadly linear prophylls at base of annual growth. Leaves crowded; petiole to 3 cm long; lamina erect, linear, pinnatifid, 11-33 cm long, 7-14 mm wide, acute, pungent, white-tomentose below; margins revolute; lobes 10-35 each side, broadly falcate, to 6 mm long, pungent, with upper margin less prominent than lower. Inflorescence terminal, ascending; involucral bracts ovate to broadly linear, to 8-9 cm long, acute, appressed-pubescent, dull brown; flowers c. 45-70 per head. Perianth 43-52 mm long, creamy white with pale yellow limb, succulent and curled-villous above base, glabrous distally; limb 7-8 mm long, sparsely hirsute to glabrous. Pistil gently curved, 45-58 mm long, cream, pubescent above base; pollen presenter narrow, 4-5 mm long, ribbed. Follicles several, ±unilaterally obovate with constricted base, 18-19 mm long, almost glabrous, striate.
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