Erect to spreading shrub 1-6 m tall, or rarely prostrate. Branchlets glabrous or openly (rarely densely) subsericeous. Leaves ascending, 1.5-8.5 cm long, entire and oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or sublinear and 1.5-11 mm wide, and/or apically 2-or 3-fid or-partite and narrowly cuneate; lobes simple, subtriangular to oblong, 3-15 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; margins recurved or loosely revolute; lower surface exposed, glabrous or sparsely to densely sericeous. Unit conflorescence erect, subsessile or on wiry peduncles to 15 mm long, regular, umbelloid, acropetal; floral rachis 1.5-6 mm long, subsericeous to tomentose. Flowers adaxially oriented; pedicels sericeous to tomentose. Perianth 2-3 (-5) mm long, subsericeous to subtomentose outside, bearded and papillose inside. Pistil 6.5-9.5 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 10-13 mm long, glabrous, faintly colliculose to almost smooth.