Columnar or bushy shrub to 2 m. Stems pubescent to closely tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 5-10 mm long, glabrescent; lamina broadly linear, pinnatipartite, curved, 5-11 cm long, 25-35 mm wide, pungent, closely tomentose below in pits; margins flat; lobes triangular, 4-7 each side. Inflorescence axillary or on short branchlet; involucral bracts elliptic to linear, obtuse to acute, to 16 mm long, appressed-pubescent; flowers c. 80 per head. Perianth 22-24 mm long, pale to medium yellow, densely hirsute; limb 4.5-6.5 mm long, hirsute with glabrous apex. Pistil outcurved, 25-27 mm long, cream, hirsute in lowest third, glabrous distally; pollen presenter narrow, 3-4 mm long, ribbed. Follicles obliquely ovate with basal lateral notch, 8-11 mm long, loosely hirsute, shining.
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