Shrub to 3 m, without lignotuber. Stems hirsute and tomentose. Leaves: petiole to 1 cm long, closely pubescent; lamina obovate to cuneate, 5-9 cm long, 22-50 mm wide, ±truncate, mucronate, glabrous below except in pits; margins undulate, not or slightly recurved, serrate, with 5-15 pungent teeth to 6 mm long each side. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts subulate to linear, acute, to 5 cm long, plumose-tomentose; flowers 140-160 per head. Perianth 35-41 mm long, golden, hirsute above base, then appressed-tomentose; limb 8-9 mm long, hirsute. Pistil incurved, 41-52 mm long, yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter narrow, 5-6 mm long, finely ribbed. Follicles up to 14 per head, obliquely obovate, 15-20 mm long, woolly in upper half.
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