Shrub to 50 cm, with lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute. Leaves: petiole 1-2 cm long; lamina linear, pinnatipartite, 3-9 cm long, 7-15 mm wide, tardily glabrescent above, tomentose below with midrib and reticulum tardily glabrescent; margins recurved; lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 6-15 or 20-33 each side, with upper ones directed forward at c. 60° and lowest almost at 90°. Inflorescence sessile, axillary or on short branchlet; involucral bracts ovate (outer) to lanceolate or oblong (inner), obtuse, not recurved, 11-25 mm long, shining brown, hirsute-silky on margins and towards apex, glabrous inside; flowers 35-40 per head. Perianth 19-23 mm long, pink with greenish cream limb, hirsute outside except glabrous apex of limb; limb 4.5-6 mm long, keeled. Pistil gently incurved, 22-29 mm long, pink, sparsely hirsute in lowest third; pollen presenter slightly thickened at base, 3-3.8 mm long, prominently ribbed, dark green, with slightly flattened apex. Follicles ellipsoidal, 5-6 mm long, densely hirsute, wrinkled.
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