Spreading or rarely almost prostrate shrub (0.4-) 1.5-3 m tall. Branchlets subsericeous to tomentose. Leaves ascending, (1.5-) 3-12 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, entire and narrowly obovate to broadly linear-obovate, or some or all irregularly 2-7-partite, with lobes 3-6 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, broadly linear to narrowly obovate; margins shortly recurved to loosely revolute; lower surface usually exposed and subsericeous, rarely enclosed except for midvein. Unit conflorescence erect, regular, ovoid-subumbelloid, acropetal; floral rachis (5-) 8-20 mm long, subsericeous to tomentose. Flowers adaxially oriented; pedicels tomentose. Perianth subsericeous to subtomentose outside, bearded inside opposite ovary. Pistil 10-15 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 10-14 mm long, glabrous, openly rugose-tuberculate.
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