branches pilose with long hairs and puberulous with very short ones; leaves 3/4–2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half, pilose or glabrous; segments terete, bluntly mucronate, furrowed on the upper surface; heads shortly pedunculate, solitary, 5–7 lin. long, about 3/4 in. in diam., 10–15-flowered; peduncles 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, densely pubescent, bearing a few ovate-lanceolate acutely acuminate glabrescent ciliate bracts 1 3/4–2 lin. long; involucral bracts 2 1/2 lin. long, ovate, acuminate, densely pubescent or hirsute, ciliate; flowers curved in bud; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, glabrous towards the base; segments 4–6 lin. long, spathulate-linear, adpressed yellow-villous; limb 1 lin. long, elliptic, subacute, adpressed yellow-villous; anthers sessile, 3/4 lin. long; hypogynous scales 3/4 lin. long, filiform; ovary 1/3 lin. long, obovoid, very densely villous; style 6–7 lin. long, cylindric, curved and glabrous above, pubescent on the lower half; stigma 1/2 lin. long, ovoid, subobtuse; fruit very minutely stalked, 3 lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, beaked, villous. null
