Spreading to erect shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Leaves ovate in gross outline, 2-8.5 cm long, 20-70 mm wide, mostly pinnatipartite or occasionally pinnatifid or rarely simple and marginally toothed; primary lobes up to 7, each entire or 2-5-dentate; ultimate lobes triangular or rounded-oblong, 6-30 mm long, 3-15 (-20) mm wide, usually pungent; margins shortly recurved; lower surface with an open to moderately dense indumentum of evenly spaced wavy to curly hairs. Unit conflorescence erect to decurved, ±secund; floral rachis 10-40 mm long. Flower colour: perianth green tending to light brown-maroon or dull yellowish; style red to pink, dull yellow, or buff. Perianth subsericeous to tomentose outside. Pistil 13.5-15.5 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 9-12.5 mm long, subsericeous.
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