Shrub to 3 m, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute. Leave: petiole 5-8 mm long, tomentose; lamina broadly linear, pinnatifid, 5-15 cm long, 7-14 mm wide, obtuse to acute, rather leathery, usually bluish, closely tomentose below; margins flat to slightly recurved; lobes 15-30 each side, triangular. Inflorescence terminal or on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, to 15 mm long, obtuse, silky-woolly; floral bracts hirsute or villous; flowers 100-130 per head. Perianth 30-40 mm long, golden, densely woolly above base, shortly hirsute on claws; limb 6 mm long, hirsute. Pistil curved, 35-50 mm long, yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly fusiform, 3-3.5 mm long, ribbed. Follicles obovate, 9-11 mm long, villous, soon glabrescent.
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