Upright, polycarpic plant to 6 m tall or ‘dwarfed’ to 1.5 m tall, pith 2–3 cm in diameter; stem with densely packed leaf-rosettes of 40–70 leaves, with no internode elongation, cloaked with marcescent foliage or at least covered with retained leaf-bases for 1–2 m below the leaf-rosettes.. Leaf lamina oblanceolate, to 94 cm long and 25 cm wide, hair cushion weakly to strongly developed on upper leaf-base, lower surface glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent, villose along lower midvein.. Inflorescence broadly paniculate; capitula presented horizontally.. Ray florets 10–15, to 25 mm long; disc florets 35–70.
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