Erect to spreading shrub, 0.8-3.6 m high. Leaves 8-12 cm long, pinnatipartite with (2-) 7-15 linear ascending lobes, occasionally lowermost primary lobes bipartite; ultimate lobes 4-8 cm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, sometimes pungent; margins tightly and angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, packed with appressed hairs in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 45-85 mm long. Flower colour: perianth greenish to fawn or cream-orange, with limb brown; style orange, orange-red, or yellow to khaki. Perianth sericeous to felty outside. Pistil 22-25 mm long; ovary stipitate; style sericeous for 4-8 mm above ovary, and with erect simple glandular hairs in apical 7-10 mm on ventral side. Follicle 14-15.5 mm long, subsericeous.
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