Shrub to 1.5 m, with lignotuber. Stems tomentose, covered in subulate, hirsute prophylls. Leaves: petiole 5-15 mm long; lamina broadly linear, pinnatifid, 8-15 cm long, 7-13 mm wide, pungent, closely white-tomentose and reticulate below; margins recurved; teeth 4-12 each side, obliquely triangular, pungent, to 5 mm long. Inflorescences on short lateral branchlets, often clustered, occasionally terminal; involucral bracts linear-subulate, to 35 mm long, pubescent and densely ciliate; flowers 30-40 per head. Perianth 27-32 mm long, yellow, villous above base, becoming glabrous in upper half, with a tuft of long caducous hairs on limb apex; limb 5-6.5 mm long. Pistil straight, 26-31 mm long, pale yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter narrow, c. 3 mm long, finely ribbed. Follicles few, obliquely broadly obovate, 10-14 mm long, sparsely pubescent.
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