Acaulescent, resprouting, evergreen herb, 80-200 mm (excluding inflorescence). Leaves in basal rosette, spreading, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 25-160 mm long, felty and densely lanate; lamina ovate to oblong; 25-120 mm x 15-80 mm; base truncate to cordate, apex acute to obtuse, margin denticulate to serrulate, terminating in a small tubercle; adaxial surface grey-green, densely lanate; abaxial surface grey-white, densely felty and lanate. Synflorescences 250-450 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 1 to 4 smaller secondary umbels, often verticillately arranged; peduncles stout, densely felty and lanate thoughout; peduncular bracts 20-40 mm, foliose, densely felty and lanate. Umbels compound, 40-60 mm in diameter, dense; involucral bracts lanceolate, ca. 12, 10-15 mm long, green, venation parallel, adaxial surface densely felty and lanate, abaxial surface lanate to partly glabrescent; rays ca. 40 to 60, 15-20 mm long at anthesis, brown, glabrous; involucellar bracts 2 to 4, 5-7 mm long; lanceolate, green, apically lanate; raylets 6 to 12, ca 2 mm long at anthesis, brown, glabrous; umbellules with 1 to 7 hermaphroditic flowers surrounded by 4 to 10 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, maroon to purple, veins 3, inconspicuous; petals filiform, strongly inflexed, maroon to purple. Fruits ovate, base rounded to truncate, dorsally strongly compressed, ca. 1.5 x 1.5 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs broadly-winged; median rib prominent, narrow.
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Tufted, evergreen perennial to 60 cm. Leaves in basal clusters, long-petiolate, lamina ovate, 65-120 mm long, both surfaces grey-felted, margins crenulate, base truncate to cordate. Flowers crowded in compound umbels on woolly peduncles, maroon. Fruit laterally compressed.
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