Shrub or small tree, 1-8 m high. Leaves 5-27 cm long, 25-120 mm wide, a few entire and ovate to obovate, but mostly irregularly pinnatifid with 2-7 (-11) subtriangular to ovate simple lobes 2-4 cm long and 10-20 mm wide, not pungent; margins flat to slightly recurved; lower surface densely tomentose with curled hairs. Unit conflorescence erect or sometimes deflexed, secund; floral rachis 50-100 mm long. Flower colour: perianth whitish pink to fawn; style pale pink to pale crimson. Perianth subsericeous to tomentose outside. Pistil 18.5-28.5 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 13.5-17 mm long, subsericeous to tomentose.