Shrub 0.5-1.5 m tall. Leaves 3-7 cm long, pinnatisect with 3-7 ascending linear lobes, occasionally lowermost lobes again bipartite; ultimate lobes 10-42 mm long, c. 0.8 mm wide, scarcely pungent; margins tightly and smoothly to angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for very prominent midvein; grooves rather lateral (lobes almost dipleural), packed with wavy hairs. Unit conflorescence erect or occasionally decurved, secund; floral rachis 20-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth grey to pale yellow-grey or greenish; style usually maroon-black (often paler distally), sometimes to red. Perianth tomentose outside. Pistil (rarely 23-) 34-38 mm long; ovary subsessile; style with long ascending biramous hairs extending up to 10 mm above ovary, then glabrous. Follicle 13-16 mm long, tomentose with mainly biramous and scattered simple erect glandular hairs.
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