Shrub 0.3-2.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous and sometimes glaucous, or sparsely subsericeous. Leaves 3-8 cm long, divaricately 3-sect, with primary lobes usually again 3-sect; ultimate lobes linear-subulate, 0.2-2.5 cm long, 0.8-1.3 mm wide; margins obscure; lower surface obscure except for prominent abaxial midveins; leaf segments with silky lateral groove on either side. Conflorescence terminal, simple or to 3-branched; unit conflorescence spreading to decurved, semi-secund or a loose hemispherical cluster, weakly acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 20-40 mm long, sparsely sericeous to glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth usually red to red-orange or yellow-orange often with pink and cream streaks; style red or pink at base, becoming pale pink or white apically. Perianth pubescent to pilose inside. Pistil 26.5-36 mm long; style strongly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter strongly oblique, convex. Follicle obloid to obloid-ellipsoidal, 10-15 mm long, rugulose.
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