Shrub with short underground stems, with small lignotuber. Stems tomentose. Leaves: petiole to 10 cm long, ±glabrous; lamina pinnatipartite, 4-19 cm long, 10-24 mm wide, acute, pungent; margins revolute; lobes 10-35 each side, linear, pungent. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts ovate to lanceolate, to 10 mm long, acute, pubescent; flowers 12-17 per head. Perianth ±straight with limb reflexed before anthesis, 33-34 mm long, pale green with yellow limb, appressed-pubescent outside, shortly pubescent inside; limb broadly elliptic, 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous. Pistil crook-shaped, 6.8-7.9 cm long, dull red, loosely spreading-hirsute; pollen presenter ovoid, 2 mm long, green. Follicles broadly obovate, 13-14 mm long, sparsely hirsute.
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