Shrub 0.6-2 m high, with emergent flowering branches. Branchlets (basal, vegetative) subsericeous to tomentose, or (flowering zone) glabrous or rarely tomentose. Leaves 0.6-4 cm long, 10-35 mm wide, dimorphic, on vegetative branches obovate to obtrullate, basally cuneate and apically 5-9-toothed or-fid, on flowering branches much smaller, deeply tripartite with spreading simple narrowly triangular lobes to c. 7 mm long, 1.3 mm wide; apices pungent; margins shortly refracted to recurved; lower surface exposed, sericeous. Unit conflorescence ?basipetal, subglobose to domed-subumbelloid; floral rachis glabrous or rarely tomentose. Flower colour: perianth white to cream with limb chocolate-brown; style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3-4 mm long; style scarcely swollen, subcylindrical; pollen-presenter narrowly truncate-conical to fusiform, base slightly wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 8-11 mm long, smooth or obscurely colliculate.
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