An erect, rounded, much branched shrub, 0.5-1.0 m in height, with a single main stem at base. Flowering stems 5.0-6.0 mm in diam., covered with a densely villous cinereous indumentum. Leaves broadly cuneate to very broadly obovate, 5.0-8.5 cm long, 2.0-6.5 cm wide, subsessile to scarcely petiolate; glabrous, or canescent with a dense indumentum of fine crisped hairs; margin incised at apex with 7-17 teeth. Inflorescences turbinate, 2.0-4.0 cm long, 1.0-2.0 cm wide; in clusters, 3-10 nate; pedunculate, peduncle 1.0-1.5 cm long. Involucral receptacle flattened, 6.0-7.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts lanceolate acute to ovate acute, 5.0-7.0 mm long, 3.0-5.0 mm wide, imbricate, cartilaginous, densely velutinous, the apex slightly recurved and thickened. Bracteoles rectangular-obtrullate, 5.0 mm long, 2.0 mm wide, cartilaginous, thickly tomentose, apex recurved. Perianth 6.0-8.0 mm long, yellow at anthesis, tube dull carmine. Perianth tube 8.0-0.0 mm long, cylindric, inflated and puberulous distally, narrowed and glabrous proximally. Perianth claws filiform, hispidulous, equally recurved subterminally, pale yellow aging to orange. Perianth limbs elliptic to lanceolate acute, 1.5 mm long, pale green. Style filiform, straight, 2.5-2.8 cm long, pale yellow. Pollen presenter filiform, cylindric-obtuse, 0.5-1.0 mm long, scarcely differentiated from the style; stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales filiform, obtuse, 2.0-2.5 mm long, hyaline. Flowering takes place from July to November.
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Like L. oleifolium but leaves broadly ovate to cuneate, with 7-17 teeth and flower heads 10-20 mm diam.
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