Spreading to erect shrub 1-2.5 m tall, or rarely prostrate. Leaves usually oblong in general outline, 3.5-15 cm long, 15-35 (-50) mm wide, pinnatifid or coarsely dentate with (2-) 7-29 triangular ±evenly distributed teeth or lobes, or rarely oblong to narrowly elliptic and entire; surfaces similar, one or both usually with an open inconspicuous appressed indumentum, rarely almost glabrous. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, decurved, simple or basally 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence dense, ovoid to shortly subcylindrical; ultimate floral rachis 15-30 (-50) mm long. Flower colour: perianth green in bud becoming cream with white hairs of inner surface displayed after anthesis; style white to cream with a green tip. Perianth glabrous outside, densely white-villous inside; tepals everting after anthesis with beard displayed. Pistil 18-24 mm long; ovary glabrous; style glabrous except for short erect simple hairs or papillae in apical 1-3 mm, rarely completely smooth and glabrous. Follicle oblique-obovoid to-ellipsoidal, 10-14 mm long, glabrous.
Grows in shrub and woodland associations, along creeks or around rock platforms and rocky slopes, in sandy soils or (near coast) also on laterite.
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