Bushy shrub to 3 m, without lignotuber. Stems glabrous. Leaves: petiole to 5 mm long; lamina linear, ±straight, 5-20 cm long, 4-9 mm wide, acute, pungent, white-tomentose below; margins revolute, serrate; teeth 8-18 each side, obliquely triangular, pungent. Inflorescence sessile, axillary, rarely on branchlet to 5 mm long; involucral bracts lanceolate to narrowly triangular, acute to obtuse, to 13 mm long, appressed-pubescent, densely ciliate; flowers 45-85 per head. Perianth 23-25 mm long, pale yellow, curled-tomentose above base, hirsute distally; limb 2.5-3 mm long, hirsute. Pistil straight, 27-31 mm long, cream, glabrous except for ovary; pollen presenter 1.2-1.5 mm long, obscurely ribbed. Follicles obovate to orbicular, 6-8 mm long, sparsely hairy, striate.
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