Much-branched shrub 2-4 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, 7-20 cm long, usually 2-7-sect with ascending lobes, sometimes entire; simple leaves and lobes linear, 1.3-2.5 mm wide; margins revolute to midvein; surfaces dissimilar, with lower surface enclosed except for midvein, villous in grooves. Conflorescence terminal, erect, paniculately 2-6-branched; bases of secondary peduncles sometimes blackish and triangular; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 6-7 cm long, acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style off-white to cream. Perianth glabrous outside, sparsely villous inside. Nectary U-shaped. Pistil 11.5-12 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter strongly oblique, flat to concave. Follicle ellipsoidal to obloid, not or scarcely compressed, 21-27 mm long, glabrous, almost smooth, viscid when young.
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