Shrub to 2 m, without lignotuber, much-branched. Leaves crowded; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina broadly linear, 20-26 cm long, 10-20 mm wide, pungent; margins recurved, serrate; lobes 5-20 each side, triangular with decurrent base, pungent. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet covered with scale-like bracts, concealed; involucral bracts broadly ovate to oblong, 50-75 mm long, obtuse or acute, appressed-pubescent below apex and on upper margins, otherwise glabrous, shining dark red-brown; flowers 70-120 per head, not scented. Perianth 40-50 mm long, pale yellow, succulent and curled-hirsute above base, glabrous distally; limb 8 mm long, glabrous. Pistil incurved to ±straight, 42-60 mm long, cream, glabrous; pollen presenter scarcely thickened, 5-7 mm long, finely ribbed, green. Follicles obovate with narrow base, 22-24 mm long, glabrous, dark brown, shining.
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