Spreading shrub 0.5-2 m tall. Leaves 4-6 cm long, pinnatisect with 9-17 broadly linear to narrowly elliptic simple spreading lobes; lobes 2-5 cm long, 1.8-4 mm wide; upper surface tomentose with biramous and scattered erect simple hairs; lower surface usually narrowly exposed, open-tomentose to subvillous with ±straight biramous hairs, and with simple erect glandular hairs concentrated along midvein. Conflorescences ±erect, terminal, simple; rachis 8-15 cm long (active flowering zone 3-?8 cm long), villous; unit conflorescence narrowly conico-cylindrical, acropetal; flowers sessile, basiscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style pale cream to white (pale hairs only). Perianth loosely villous outside, glabrous inside. Pistil 6-8 mm long; ovary villous; style loosely to sparsely villous, ±glabrous on ventral side. Follicles 8-10 mm long, oblique-ovoid, appressed to rachis, villous.
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