Prostrate to erect shrub to 1.8 m high. Branchlets softly angular to subterete, loosely to sparsely sub-tomentose with straight hairs, becoming nearly glabrous. Leaves rigid, 1.5-2.5 cm long, divaricately pinnatisect with 5-7 primary lobes, the basal 1 or 2 pairs again divaricately 2-or 3-sect; ultimate lobes linear, 10-15 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, pungent; upper surface loosely subtomentose or-subsericeous, soon glabrous, not pitted; margins angularly revolute; lower surface mostly or wholly enclosed except for midveins, sometimes lamina narrowly exposed and then subsericeous. Conflorescence decurved, shortly and broadly secund, 18-24-flowered, acropetal; rachis 12-17 mm long (only c. 8-9 mm active), openly pubescent becoming almost glabrous. Perianth and style both red. Perianth glabrous outside except for a few inconspicuous appressed hairs near tip of limb segments, densely bearded inside. Pistil 20-22 mm long. Follicles and seeds not seen.
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