Prostrate to erect shrub, 0.1-2.5 m high, lower-growing forms often with ascending to erect flowering branches. Branchlets shortly and irregularly pubescent to almost glabrous. Leaves 1-5 cm long, 10-15 mm wide across lobes, usually pinnatipartite with 3-5 ascending and slightly to strongly divaricate primary lobes, the basal ones sometimes again 2-or 3-partite, sometimes a few leaves simple and sublinear to narrowly oblanceolate and up to 3 cm long and 4 mm wide; ultimate lobes 4-20 mm long, 0.7-2.0 mm wide, linear to oblong or narrowly triangular, often upcurved; apices scarcely pungent; margins recurved or revolute; lower surface sometimes enclosed, glabrous or with a sparse indumentum of short ascending hairs. Unit conflorescence acropetal, dome-shaped to shortly subcylindrical; floral rachis loosely tomentose at least near the base, sometimes glabrous above. Flower colour: perianth white to cream; style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3.5-6.5 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter conical, base broader than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 10-13 mm long, strongly rugose, thick-walled.
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