Shrub, often root-suckering, 0.3-1.5 (-3.0) m high. Leaves 3-8 (-10) cm long, pinnatifid to pinnatipartite with 3-11 primary lobes, the lower ones usually again 3-5 (-7)-partite, often some secondary lobes again 2-or 3-fid; ultimate lobes subtriangular to narrowly so or ovate, 3-20 (-28) mm long, 2-7 (-10) mm wide, pungent; margins shortly and angularly recurved; lower surface mostly or completely exposed, tomentose with twisted or curly hairs, or subsericeous with straight hairs. Unit conflorescence narrowly conical to cylindrical, acropetal; floral rachis 25-85 (-100) mm long. Perianth tomentose outside. Pistil 3.5-5.3 mm long; style tomentose almost to apex with biramous hairs and occasional simple erect hairs, sparser towards apex. Follicle 7.5-10 mm long, tomentose.
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