Shrub to 1.6 m, without lignotuber. Stems appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole to c. 2 cm long; lamina ±linear but broadened upwards, pinnatipartite usually only in lowest 1/3-1/2, otherwise entire, 5-35 cm long, 2-16 mm wide; margins recurved; teeth to c. 15 each side, widely spreading, narrowly triangular, subulate-pungent, with lowest teeth spine-like. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet, often crowded; involucral bracts acute, 11-20 mm long, glabrous except ciliate margins or appressed-puberulous towards apex; outermost bracts broad-based, long-subulate, ±glabrous; inner bracts lanceolate to broadly linear; flowers 40-60 per head. Perianth 25-28 mm long, golden, curled-woolly above base, hirsute distally, glabrous inside; limb c. 2.5 or 3.2-3.7 mm long, widest above middle, densely hirsute with longer hairs towards apex, or almost glabrous. Pistil gently curved, 34-41 mm long, cream, glabrous except hirsute ovary, swollen above ovary; pollen presenter cylindrical, sometimes swollen at base, 0.9-1.4 mm long, finely ribbed. Follicles obliquely elliptic but constricted at base, 9-13 mm long, glabrous.
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