Shrub to 3 m, without lignotuber. Stems hirsute and tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate; lamina cuneate, 2.5-11 cm long, 1-6 cm wide truncate, mucronate, white-tomentose below except on nerves; margins undulate, not or slightly recurved, serrate, with 4-9 ±irregular teeth each side. Inflorescence terminal or on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts ovate to narrowly lanceolate, to 12-15 mm long, acute, hirsute and tomentose; flowers 80-160 per head. Perianth 30-38 mm long, pale yellow or pink-tinged, hirsute; limb 4-7.5 mm long, pubescent. Pistil incurved but after anthesis the apex turned outwards, 31-52 mm long, cream, glabrous; pollen presenter ellipsoidal, angular at base, 2-5 mm long, ribbed. Follicles up to 8 per head, obovate to elliptic, 12-15 mm long, tomentose, glabrescent.
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