Tangled shrub to 1 m, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute. Leaves: petiole 5-15 cm long; lamina deeply pinnatipartite, 15-30 cm long, 7-14 cm wide; margins recurved to revolute; lobes 10-17 each side at 70°-90°, linear, acute, pungent; several to many small leaves 5-15 cm long with filiform lobes subtending inflorescence. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts ovate to oblong, obtuse, rusty-silky-villous and densely ciliate; innermost bracts to 25-42 mm long; flowers 55-80 per head. Perianth 50-53 mm long, pale yellow with pale gold limb, densely curled-villous above base, curled-tomentose distally; limb 15-18 mm long, acute, silky with long apical tuft. Pistil 49-52 mm long, cream, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowed, 12-15 mm long, ribbed. Follicles obovate, somewhat oblique across upper margin, 17 mm long, somewhat villous but hairs wearing off.
Grows in sandy loam over gravel or in gravel, in kwongan, occasionally in Eucalyptus wandoo woodland.
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