Spreading, compact, often flat-topped shrub c. 1 m tall, 2-3 m wide. Leaves 4-7.5 cm long, pinnatipartite (almost pinnatisect) with 3-7 (-11) entire ascending linear lobes 1-4.5 cm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, sometimes pungent; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, with caducous wavy to curly hairs on veins and in grooves. Unit conflorescence decurved to deflexed, secund; floral rachis 50-70 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pale yellow to apricot; style deep maroon-black to reddish. Perianth tomentose outside with biramous (and rarely also erect-glandular?) hairs. Pistil 28.5-40 mm long; ovary sessile; style usually glabrous, occasionally biramous hairs extending 2-3 mm above ovary, and/or with scattered minute erect simple hairs over much or all of ventral surface. Follicle 13-18 mm long, tomentose with biramous hairs of ovary mostly caducous and replaced with short simple erect glandular hairs (often matted with exudate).
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