Shrub 0.3-2 m tall. Leaves subsessile, star-shaped, 5-10 mm long, 8-18 mm wide, palmately divided with 3-9 spreading, rigid, pungent, ±triangular lobes (3-) 5-8 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide; margins recurved; lower surface mostly exposed, glabrous to pilose, with simple erect glandular hairs along veins. Conflorescence erect, terminal, simple, weakly basipetal, a loose (2-) 4-10-flowered cluster; rachis 1-3 mm long. Flowers ±acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style bright red. Perianth openly pubescent outside with glandular hairs or sometimes glabrous, bearded inside opposite ovary. Pistil 15.5-19.5 mm long; ovary appressed-villous; style pilose to subsericeous on dorsal side. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 9-12 mm long, slightly ridged dorsally, loosely tomentose.
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