Shrub to 1 m high. Leaves with slender petiole 3–5 mm long; lamina flat, elliptic to broadly elliptic, mostly 20–25 mm long, broadly cuneate at base, rounded at apex, soft, very sparsely pubescent adaxially with small weak sessile and stipitate stellate hairs, moderately soft-pubescent to velvety abaxially. Flowerheads c. 2 cm diam.; outer bracts ovate, c. 13 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, acute, with a soft reddish brown indumentum; inner bracts narrowly ovate, shortly exceeding outer ones, reddish brown-tomentose. Petals c. 6 mm long, stellate-pubescent. Stamens: filaments c. 20 mm long, pink, stellate-pilose towards base; anthers c. 1.3 mm long, pink.
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