A slender erect shrub to 2.0 m in height, very sparsely branched, stiffly erect, with a single main stem at base. Flowering stems slender, 3.0-4.0 mm in diam., densely tomentose. Leaves obovate-orbicular, occasionally elliptic, 1.0-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1.0 cm wide, entire; densely imbricate, covered with a softly villous adpressed indumentum. Inflorescences globose, 1.5-2.0 cm in diam., sessile, seldom solitary, usually 2-8 nate. Involucral receptacle flat, 4.0-5.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts broadly lanceolate to ovate, acute to obtuse 5.0-7.0 mm long, 2.0-5.0 mm wide, scarious to papyraceous, slightly sericeous towards the apex, otherwise glabrous, margins densely ciliate; arranged in 3 to 4 rows forming a distinct involucre. Bracteoles lanceolate acuminate, 6.0 mm long, 2.0 mm wide, densely lanate. Perianth yellow when fresh, becoming pinkish with age, 8.0-0.0 mm long, Perianth tube 4.0 mm long, glabrous, slightly quadrangular. Perianth claws equally reflexed subterminally, thickly villous. Perianth limbs elliptic 2.0 mm long very sparsely hirsute. Style 1.4-1.6 cm long, straight to very slightly incurved, tapering subterminally, yellow at first aging to crimson. Pollen presenter abruptly conic-ovoid, acute, 1.0 mm long, stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales filiform, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, hyaline. Flowering takes place from August to December.
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Like L. bolusii but leaves elliptic-obovate, grey-felted and flower heads yellow fading red.
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