Shrub to 1.8 m, without lignotuber. Stems villous. Leaves: petiole 1-2 cm long; lamina broadly linear, pinnatipartite, 8-17 cm long, 6-15 mm wide; margins revolute; lobes 15-31 per side, triangular, acute, pungent, with lower edge concave and upper edge convex. Inflorescence sessile, axillary, subtended by small 'involucral' leaves; involucral bracts broadly linear, tapering, with longest to 20 mm long, acute, villous; outermost bracts denticulate; flowers c. 90-100 per head. Perianth 16-18 mm long, golden, villous-hirsute; limb 3 mm long, sparsely pubescent and with terminal, long, twisted caducous hairs. Pistil strongly incurved, 23-25 mm long, cream, glabrous except long hairs on ovary; pollen presenter narrowly ellipsoidal, 1-1.1 mm long, ribbed, brown. Follicles 1-3 per head, broadly oblong-ovate, gently curved, 16-18 mm long, densely tomentose.
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