Dense shrub 0.5-2 m tall. Leaves cuneate-obovate to oblong-ovate, 1-5.5 cm long, (5-) 10-60 mm wide, dentate to pinnatifid with 3-19 marginal teeth or lobes, sometimes these with shallow secondary division, rarely a few leaves entire and narrowly obovate; teeth or lobes pungent, subtriangular, 2-7 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; margins recurved to shortly revolute; lower surface mostly exposed, loosely to densely subsericeous. Conflorescence erect to spreading or decurved, terminal or axillary, usually simple, weakly basipetal, loosely subglobose or semi-secund; rachis 2-7 mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth outer surface tomentose below limb with mixed biramous and simple glandular hairs, villous on limb with spreading rusty biramous hairs; inner surface pubescent to pilose. Pistil 20-27 mm long; ovary villous; style villous. Follicle subglobose to obloid-ovoid, c. 12 mm long, loosely villous with caducous biramous hairs and more persistent simple glandular hairs.
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