Shrub to 4 m, often bushy, without lignotuber. Stems hirsute and tomentose. Leaves: petiole 2-3 mm long; lamina broadly linear, pinnatipartite, 7-16 cm long, 6-11 mm wide, obtuse, mucronate, closely tomentose below, relatively soft; margins recurved; lobes 30-45 each side, ±triangular, acute, curved with lower margin convex. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts ovate, obovate or oblong, abruptly narrowed, to 16-20 mm long, obtuse, silky-villous; floral bracts glabrous; flowers 100-220 per head. Perianth 25-39 mm long, golden orange, loosely crisped-villous above base; claw hirsute; limb 4-5 mm long, long-hirsute. Pistil bowed, 29-55 mm long, yellow, glabrous except long hairs on ovary; pollen presenter narrowly cylindrical, 2-4 mm long, ribbed. Follicles to 16 per head, ±obovate, 11-13 mm long, glabrous.
Grows in loam, gravelly loam and on granite and metasandstone rocky slopes, in tall kwongan and open forest.
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