Shrub to 2 m, without lignotuber. Stems spreading-hirsute and tomentose. Leaves: petiole to 1 cm long; lamina linear, deeply pinnatifid, 15-25 cm long, 4-12 mm wide, obtuse but ±mucronate, closely tomentose below; margins slightly recurved; lobes c. 40-60 each side, ±triangular but usually slightly recurved, mucronate; leaves passing through smaller leaves to involucral bracts. Inflorescence lateral on short branchlet or terminal; involucral bracts oblong, abruptly narrowed, 20-25 mm long, acute, silky, villous or tomentose, striate at apex and inside, pale or rusty brown; flowers 80-110 or 150-180 per head. Perianth 15-20 or 27-30 mm long, pale yellow with greenish limb, curled-villous above base, appressed-pubescent distally; limb 3-4 mm long, appressed-pubescent to hirsute. Pistil curved, 20-25 or 34-38 mm long, cream, often reddish in upper half, glabrous; pollen presenter 1.5-2 mm long, ribbed. Follicles ±curved-ovate or slightly obliquely elliptic, 14-20 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hirsute.
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