Shrub to 1 m, without lignotuber. Stems erect, with thick, ±appressed, lanceolate, villous prophylls. Leaves bluish green; petiole 3-6 cm long; lamina deeply pinnatipartite to almost pinnatisect, 10-25 cm long, 3-6 cm wide; margins almost flat to shortly recurved; lobes 10-18 each side, triangular, usually narrow and ±straight-sided, decurrent, at 70°-80°; pits on undersurface indistinct, shallow. Inflorescence terminal, with linear, leaf-like bracts around involucre; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, to 10-20 mm long, rusty-villous; flowers 50-85 per head. Perianth 35-43 mm long, pale gold; claws curled-villous to tomentose; limb 8-11 mm long, appressed-silky with long terminal tuft. Pistil bowed, 40-48 mm long, very thick towards base, cream, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly fusiform, 5-7.5 mm long, ribbed, green. Follicles obovate, 13 mm long, 12 mm wide, sparsely hairy, striate, shining, ±viscid.
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