Shrub to 3 m, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute. Leaves: petiole 5-40 mm long; lamina ±oblong, pinnatifid, 6-20 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, obtuse or emarginate, shortly mucronate, villous but glabrescent above, closely tomentose below with prominent midrib; margins shortly recurved; lobes 10-35 each side, obliquely ovate, obtuse to acute. Inflorescence axillary, sessile, crowded in groups; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, rusty or pale villous, somewhat sticky; innermost bracts to 13 mm long; floral bracts hirsute one side; flowers 50-60 per head. Perianth 17 mm long, cream, closely curled-villous above base, hirsute distally; limb 1.6-2.5 mm long, pale green, hirsute. Pistil curved evenly downwards, 20-24 mm long, maroon in upper half, glabrous; pollen presenter cylindrical to narrowly ovate, 0.5-0.8 mm long, obscurely ribbed, maroon. Follicles oblong to obliquely elliptic, 11-14 mm long, loosely hirsute in upper half, glabrous below.
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