Dense shrub 0.5-1.5 m tall. Branchlets open tomentose. Leaves 4-6 cm long, to 9 cm wide (flattened), usually deeply 3-5-partite or-sect; lateral lobes spreading and divaricate, with some or all lobes again 3-partite (rarely some tertiary division); ultimate lobes straight, linear, (0.8-) 1.5-3.5 cm long, 0.7-0.8 (-1.2) mm wide; basal internode with lamina continuing as a narrow wing right to leaf base; apices pungent; margins loosely revolute to midveins or almost so; lower surface 2-grooved, often a narrow area of lower surface exposed at least at nodes. Unit conflorescence acropetal, subglobose to obovoid; floral rachis loosely tomentose. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3.5-4 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter conical to bluntly fusiform, base slightly wide than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 7-11 mm long, rugose with short rounded ridges.
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