Shrub to 6 m with 1-several slender, erect stems, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose, soon glabrescent except in axils. Leaves: petiole 4-10 mm long; lamina broadly linear, 3-15 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, acute or obtuse, mucronate, glabrous above, closely tomentose and ±nerveless below except midrib; margins slightly recurved, serrate; lobes 8-20 each side, broadly triangular, mucronate. Inflorescence on short, leafy, lateral branchlet; involucral bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate, erect, obtuse to acute, appressed-pubescent (inner ones only on margins); innermost bracts 6-8 mm long; floral bracts hirsute one side, glabrous the other; flowers 20-36 per head. Perianth ±straight with upturned limb, 16-19 mm long, pale yellow, silky-villous above base with ±straight hairs; claw slender, pubescent; limb 2-2.3 mm long, silky-hirsute. Pistil curved downwards with gently upturned apex, 19-21 mm long, cream, hirsute above ovary, glabrous distally; pollen presenter narrowly ovoid, 0.5 mm long, not ribbed, green. Follicles ovate but strongly curved to one side, 12-18 mm long, pubescent but glabrescent, firmly attached.
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