Shrub 0.3-2 (-3) m tall. Leaves 4-28 cm long, usually all pinnatisect with (5-) 10-60 (-71) lobes, rarely lower leaves entire and linear; lobes linear to narrowly elliptic, entire or occasionally the lowermost bipartite; simple leaves and undivided lobes 4-21 cm long, 0.7-3 (-6.5) mm wide, pliable, sometimes pungent; margins recurved to revolute, occasionally enclosing most of lower surface except midveins of leaf and lobes; lower surface sericeous to (rarely) villous. Conflorescence erect-emergent, simple or to 9-branched; unit conflorescence many-flowered, secund, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 100-600 mm long. Flowers twisting to basiscopic orientation in bud stage, also slumping laxly below rachis soon after anthesis; pedicels spreading, 4.5-10 mm long. Perianth glabrous or with a few erect glandular hairs outside, bearded inside near curve. Pistil 41-50 mm long, glabrous or with a few erect glandular hairs; stipe 8.5-10.5 mm long. Follicle obliquely ellipsoidal or subglobose, 7.5-15 mm long, glabrous or pilose with erect glandular hairs, viscid, thin-walled.
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