Shrub to 80 cm, with 1-several columnar branches, without lignotuber. Stems villous and tomentose. Leaves: petiole usually 2-6 mm long, villous, glabrescent; lamina broadly linear, pinnatipartite, spreading, 4-12 cm long, 6-15 mm wide, acute to obtuse, pungent, closely tomentose below; margins revolute; lobes 10-25 each side, linear to narrowly triangular, to 8 mm long, pungent. Inflorescence on short branchlet or sessile; involucral bracts many, linear, mostly to 12 mm long, silky-villous with white hairs; flowers 60-75 per head. Perianth straight to curved with downturned limb, 13-16 mm long, cream, curled tomentose in lower half, silky-villous above; limb 2.5 mm long, gold or brown, pilose. Pistil prominently downcurved, 16-19 mm long, cream, glabrous except silky ovary; pollen presenter not thickened, 1 mm long, smooth, green or cream. Follicles transversely ovate, 9 mm long, 11-13 mm wide, sparsely pilose.
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