Shrub to 1.5 m, without lignotuber, columnar. Stems villous. Leaves crowded, with overlapping petioles; petiole 1-4 cm long, rusty hirsute; lamina linear, decurved, 6-18 cm long, 7-10 mm wide, acute, pungent, closely tomentose below; margins recurved, dentate or serrate; teeth 5-15 each side, to 4 mm long. Inflorescence sessile or on short branchlet; involucral bracts many, narrow, 25-33 mm long, rusty brown, silky-villous; flowers 40-60 per head. Perianth ±straight with downturned limb, 18-22 mm long, creamy yellow, curled-villous in lower half, silky distally; limb 2.5-3 mm long, sparsely hirsute. Pistil downcurved, 23-31 mm long, yellow, glabrous except hirsute ovary; pollen presenter not thickened, 1.5 mm long, ribbed, red. Follicles obovate, 6-9 mm long, hirsute.
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