Bushy, spreading shrub 1-2 m high. Branchlets terete, with open-villous (spreading) indumentum. Leaves 1-2.5 cm long, partly bi-pinnatisect; lower primary lobes often retrorse, always with secondary division, sometimes all primary lobes with secondary division; ultimate lobes linear, usually spreading, 1.5-12 mm long, 0.3-0.8 mm wide; upper surface not pitted, loosely villous becoming glabrous; margins revolute; lower surface enclosed except midvein, 2-grooved, loosely villous in grooves. Conflorescence erect or sometimes deflexed, 2-4 cm long, loosely oblong-secund, acropetal, 12-20-flowered, exceeding foliage; rachis 8-15 mm long, open-tomentose. Flower colour: perianth and style red; style-end green. Perianth sparsely subsericeous to glabrous outside, pubescent inside. Pistil 27 mm long. Follicles narrowly obloid-acuminate, 10-12 mm long, with a very conspicuous, sub-basal transverse ridge.
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