Dense prickly shrub 0.5-2 m high. Leaves 1.8-3.6 mm long, deeply and divaricately tripartite to pinnatipartite or biternate; primary lobes 3-5, entire to tripartite; ultimate lobes linear to subulate, rigid, 5-20 mm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide, pungent; margins angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence simple to few-branched; unit conflorescence usually decurved to deflexed or occasionally erect, loosely subsecund or shortly subcylindrical; floral rachis 25-60 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pink to red-pink, with limb paler and sometimes cream; style red. Perianth markedly saccate at base, open-tomentose outside (often subvillous on limb) with both biramous and erect glandular hairs, usually glabrous inside or with appressed hairs near curve. Pistil 30-37 mm long; style minutely pubescent with erect simple glandular hairs. Follicle 13-17 mm long, tomentose.
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