Shrub to 2 m, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves: petiole 5-12 mm long, hirsute; lamina ±lanceolate to narrowly obovate, 5-13 cm long, 15-35 mm wide, acute, pungent, deeply serrate to pinnatipartite, loosely hirsute, glabrescent except pits in lower surface; margins recurved; lobes 5-10 each side, obliquely triangular, acuminate, pungent. Inflorescence terminal or on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts lanceolate to linear, obtuse to acute, erect, 22-32 mm long, tomentose; outer bracts with hirsute margins in upper half; flowers c. 90-110 per head. Perianth 40-41 mm long, pale yellow, curled-pubescent above base, hirsute distally; limb 5.5-6.5 mm long, hirsute at base, otherwise glabrous. Pistil incurved, 45-48 mm long, cream, hirsute just above ovary, otherwise glabrous; pollen presenter narrow, 4-5 mm long, ribbed. Follicles somewhat angular-ovate to obovate, 9-11 mm long, sparsely hirsute, shining.
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