Shrub, with short underground fire-tolerant stems. Leaves: petiole 1-3 cm long; lamina pinnatisect, 12-20 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, V-shaped in cross section; lower surface usually woolly only in pits; lobes 40-85 each side, narrowly triangular to ±elliptic, acute, with lower margin revolute, slightly overlapping the slightly recurved upper margin of lobe below. Inflorescence with no or very few subtending filiform 'bracts'; involucral bracts to 20-25 mm long, obtuse, rusty-pubescent; flowers 60-90 per head. Perianth 28-35 mm long, straw-coloured, golden, pale mauve or purple, shortly hirsute above base; claw pubescent to hirsute; limb 3 mm long, ±evenly elliptic, hirsute. Pistil 38-41 mm long, cream to pale yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter slightly swollen at base and apex, 1-1.2 mm long. Follicles broadly obovate, 12-15 mm long, ±glabrous.
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