Shrub to 60 cm, with lignotuber. Stems spreading, hirsute and tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 2-5 mm long, glabrescent; lamina linear, pinnatifid, 6-13 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, obtuse or emarginate, mucronate, closely white-tomentose below; margins revolute with the upper margin of the lobe less so than the lower; lobes triangular, 10-30 each side. Inflorescence terminal; involucral bracts lanceolate, to 15 mm long, acuminate, hirsute and tomentose, pale and ferruginous; flowers 40-70 per head. Perianth 19-22 mm long, cream, spreading-hirsute; limb 4 mm long, hirsute. Pistil gently incurved, 25-27 mm long, cream, loosely hirsute; pollen presenter 1-1.3 mm long, obscurely ribbed, pale or dark. Follicles transversely elliptic, 7-9 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, sparsely hirsute.
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