Shrub to 1.5 m, with or without lignotuber. Stems hirsute and tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 1-3 mm long, glabrescent; lamina linear, pinnatifid, 4-8 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, emarginate, mucronate, white-tomentose below; margins revolute with the upper margin of the lobe less so than the lower; lobes 10-20, triangular. Inflorescence terminal, often several together on short branchlets; involucral bracts ovate, 6-10 mm long, acute, hirsute and closely tomentose, dark brown in upper half; flowers c. 50-80 per head. Perianth 12-20 mm long, pale yellow, hirsute with fine spreading hairs; limb 3.5 mm long, hirsute, with apical hairs erect, coarser. Pistil prominently looped before anthesis, afterwards gently incurved, 19-26 mm long, cream, loosely hirsute; pollen presenter 0.9-1.2 mm long, slightly thickened, smooth, dark. Follicles transversely elliptic, 4-5 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, sparsely hirsute to glabrous.
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