Shrub to 2.5 m, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute, with linear, villous prophylls. Leaves: petiole 5-20 mm long; lamina broadly linear, pinnatifid to pinnatipartite, 8-30 cm long, 7-18 mm wide, obtuse or truncate, mucronate, rusty-villous above and on midrib below, glabrescent above, remaining tomentose below; margins recurved; lobes 25-40 each side, triangular, obtuse or acute. Inflorescence axillary, sessile, often clustered, with many small leaf-like bracts; involucral bracts linear to terete with filiform apex, long-hirsute; innermost bracts to 30 mm long, pale brown; flowers 45-80 per head. Perianth 16-20 mm long, cream, white at base, curled-villous above base, long-hirsute on claws; limb 2.7-3 mm long, broadest just above middle, ±obtuse, openly hirsute, with apical hairs longer. Pistil curved downwards, 19-27 mm long, cream, glabrous; pollen presenter not or scarcely thickened, 0.9-1 mm long, ribbed, pale green. Follicles 1-3 per head, curved-obovate, 10-15 mm long, 7-15 mm wide, openly hirsute, glabrescent. Seed wing greatly expanded to 1 side.
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