Openly branched shrub to 2 m, without lignotuber. Stems sparsely hirsute, soon glabrous. Leaves sessile or with petiole to 10 mm long; lamina broadly linear, 3-16 cm long, 10-18 mm wide, acute, pungent, closely tomentose below; margins recurved, coarsely serrate; teeth 5-10 each side, broadly obliquely triangular, pungent. Inflorescence on lateral branchlet to 1 cm long, occasionally terminal; involucral bracts ovate to lanceolate, acute, to 10 mm long, glabrous or scurfy, shortly ciliate; flowers 55-65 per head. Perianth 24-25 mm long, pale yellow, curled-tomentose above base, hirsute distally; limb 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Pistil ±straight, 25-26 mm long, pale yellow, glabrous except silky apex of ovary; pollen presenter 1.8-2 mm long, smooth. Follicles oblong to ovate, 6-9 mm long, sparsely hairy, striate.
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