Perennial suffrutex, 0.3-0.45 m tall. Stems herbaceous, woody near the base, branching, canescent to tomentose, glabrescent towards the base. Leaves pinnatisect, elliptic to ovate in outline; lamina 18-69 x 14-44 mm, lobes 5 x 22 mm long with pinnule-like lobing, cobwebby to tomentose above, tomentose below; apex acute; margin entire with occasional tooth on pinnule; base truncate to subcordate; petiole 5-25 mm long, cobwebby to tomentose; auricles linear. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, 3-12(-25) arranged in a lax corymbose panicle; peduncles 7-32 mm long, cobwebby, sparsely bracteate, bracts c. 2 mm long. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 8 or 9, 5.0-5.5(-6.0) mm, glabrous, green with purplish tips when fresh and young; margins scarious. Ray florets 7 or 8, 8.0-8.6 mm long; limb 5.0-5.6 mm long, 4-veined. Disc florets c. 32; corolla c. 4.5 mm long. Cypselae oblong to obovate, curved, compressed, margined to narrow-winged, dark brown with paler margins, c. 3.2 mm long, hairy on faces and margins. Pappus as long as disc floret corolla.
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