Compact, rounded shrub 0.3-0.5 m high. Leaves 3-7.5 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, divaricate, usually twice divided with deep primary division; primary leaf lobes 3-7 per leaf, usually with secondary teeth or lobes; ultimate lobes 2-2.5 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, ±triangular, pungent; leaves subtending floral branches simple, linear; lower surface exposed, scabrous or sparsely hirsute; margins undulate, otherwise flat. Conflorescence erect, sessile, terminal, simple or rarely 1-3-branched, cylindrical, 2-5 cm long, several to many-flowered, lax, scarcely or not exceeding foliage. Flower colour: perianth reddish brown when young becoming dull yellow; style creamy yellow. Perianth villous outside with simple glandular and biramous hairs, inner surface obscurely papillose; tepals independently recoiled after anthesis. Pistil 6-6.5 mm long; ovary sessile, densely villous; style sigmoid above ovary, glandular-pubescent on lower section, papillose and gradually dilated in apical half, not exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter erect, truncate-conical. Follicles not seen.
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