Shrub, without lignotuber, either mat-like to 3 m diam. or bushy to 1.5 m tall. Stems appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves with slender petiole to 5 cm long; lamina linear, pinnatifid or serrate to entire, flexuose, 6-26 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, obtuse to mucronate, white-tomentose below; margins revolute; teeth if present up to 20 each side, curved-triangular with decurrent base, obtuse to acute. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts ovate to oblong, obtuse, to 4-4.5 cm long, appressed-pubescent; outer bracts ±glabrous, red-brown; flowers 45-65 per head. Perianth 27-33 mm long, golden brown, villous above base, becoming tomentose or glabrous distally; claws filiform; limb 5-6 mm long, glabrous. Pistil gently curved to straight, 23-31 mm long, cream, glabrous; pollen presenter not thickened, 3-3.5 mm long, ribbed, green. Follicles obovate, 14-17 mm long, glabrous.
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