Prostrate shrub to 2 m across. Leaves spreading to ascending, (5-) 7-16 cm long, (2.5-) 5-25 (-30) mm wide, commonly pinnatifid to pinnatipartite with 8-30 lobes, or occasionally toothed, or entire and then linear or narrowly obovate; lobes linear to subtriangular, 1.2-6 cm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, entire or coarsely serrate; margins shortly recurved; lower surface mostly exposed, densely subsericeous to villous. Conflorescence erect, pedunculate, terminal or axillary, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence lax, conico-cylindrical, acropetal; rachis (10-) 25-70 mm long, subsericeous to villous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth creamy white outside, brighter yellow inside; style white to pale yellow with green pollen-presenter. Perianth subsericeous to subvillous outside, glabrous inside; tepals reflexed in 2 lateral pairs and displaying inner surface in late bud, remaining thus after release of style-end. Pistil 7-8 mm long; ovary stipitate, sericeous; style sericeous to c. 1.5 mm above base, glabrous above, weakly exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicles obovoid to ellipsoidal, 10-11.5 mm long, rugulose, subsericeous.
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