Shrub 1.5-2 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or with a sparse appressed indumentum. Leaves 2.5-5 cm long, tripartite with lateral lobes often again tripartite, occasionally biternate; ultimate lobes linear, 0.5-3 cm long, c. 0.8 mm wide; apices pungent; margins tightly revolute to prominent midrib; lower surface 2-grooved. Unit conflorescence acropetal, narrowly conical to subcylindrical; floral rachis glabrous or sometimes sparsely subsericeous near base. Flower colour: perianth and style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3.5-4.5 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter truncate-conical to sub-cylindrical, scarcely wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, c. 8 mm long, rugulose.