Shrub to 1 m, often sprawling, with lignotuber, commonly suckering. Stems obscured by leaf bases, tomentose. Leaves crowded; petiole 5-10 mm long; lamina pinnatipartite, 7-12 cm long, 40-55 mm wide, glabrous above, tomentose below; margins revolute; lobes 5-9 each side, linear, pungent, widely divergent to somewhat recurved. Inflorescence sessile or on short lateral branchlet, on older stems; involucral bracts lanceolate, to 15-22 mm long, acute to obtuse, not spreading, glabrous with pubescent apex; flowers 80-100 per head. Perianth 20-27 mm long, pale yellow, villous above base, hirsute distally; limb 5-6.5 mm long, sparsely hirsute to almost glabrous. Pistil straight then strongly curving outwards, 22-33 mm long, cream, hirsute above base, glabrous distally; pollen presenter narrow, 2.5-4 mm long, ribbed. Follicles oblong but contracted near base, 9 mm long, loosely hirsute, glabrescent, striate.
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