Spreading to erect shrub or small tree 3-6 (-8) m high. Leaves 8-30 cm long, ascending, usually (3-) 5-9-partite or occasionally entire; simple leaves and lobes linear, 1-2 mm wide; lower primary lobes often 2-or 3-partite; upper surface not ridged; margins tightly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence erect, terminal or occasionally axillary, usually 2-5-branched; unit conflorescence dense, cylindrical, 5-10 cm long, basipetal to synchronous; floral bracts 1.5-2.2 mm long. Flowers transversely oriented to rachis. Flower colour: perianth white to greenish cream; style white to creamy yellow. Perianth ±villous outside, open pilose towards base inside; tepals loosely connate after anthesis except along dorsal suture. Pistil 15-21.5 mm long; ovary villous; style villous in basal third, glabrous above; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicles 20-25 mm long, thickly ±lenticular, velutinous.
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