Shrub 2-4 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, 13-26 cm long, pinnatisect with 7-14 ascending linear lobes 5-19 cm long, 0.7-1.0 mm wide; margins revolute to midveins; surfaces dissimilar, with lower surface 2-grooved, hairy in grooves. Conflorescence terminal, erect, paniculately 2-14-branched with branches strongly ascending; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 10-25 cm long, acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style deep cream to white. Perianth glabrous outside, shortly pubescent inside near base. Nectary usually annular and shortly cylindrical or sometimes U-shaped. Pistil 11-15 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter oblique, ±conical. Follicle compressed-ovoid, 13-15 mm long, glabrous, viscid when young, decorticating later.
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