Dioecious erect shrub to 3 m high. Leaves sessile, irregularly pinnatifid or irregularly 2–12-lobed in apical ⅔, entire in basal ⅓, rarely whole leaf entire; lobes elliptic to linear-oblong, obtuse to rounded, 1–1.5 mm long, rarely to 5 mm; lamina linear to linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowly attenuate at base, 1.5–5.5 cm long, 0.1–0.25 cm wide, glabrous to puberulent. Flowers paired or 3 together; pedicels 3–6.5 mm long. Sepals 3 or 4, ovate, 1.6–2.7 mm long, caducous. Stamens 6–8. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-winged, rarely 4-winged, transversely elliptic or broadly obovate in lateral view, 10.5–15 mm long, 14–21 mm wide, glabrous; wings 4–7 mm wide, coriaceous to membranous; dehiscence septifragal.
Grows on rocky slopes, hills and ridges of various rock types and in clay and sandy loams, in arid open woodland or shrubland.
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