Shrub 1-3 (-5) m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, 8-24 cm long, pinnatisect with 2-7 (-13) ascending linear pungent lobes 4-18 cm long; margins refracted to midvein; surfaces dissimilar, with lower surface 2-grooved, woolly in grooves. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, erect, simple or few-branched, exserted beyond leaves; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 14-21 cm long, acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style cream; style-end becoming yellow. Perianth glabrous outside or with scattered short erect simple hairs denser on limb, bearded inside at base. Nectary annular. Pistil 27-30 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter oblique, broadly conical. Fruit an indehiscent nut, globose, 22-26 mm diam., glabrous, rugose and pitted, not viscid.
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