Dense rounded shrub 1-3 m high. Leaves 5-12 cm long, deeply pinnatipartite with (3-) 5-15 ascending simple lobes; lobes linear-subterete, (2-) 3-7.5 cm long, 0.6-0.9 mm wide, sometimes pungent, bisulcate with grooves ±lateral; margins scarcely discernible; lower surface obscure except for midvein. Conflorescence erect to decurved, terminal or axillary, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence ?basipetal, a (3-) 4-10-flowered loose to subglobose cluster; ultimate rachis 2-8 mm long. Flowers obscurely basiscopic. Flower colour: perianth bright green in bud, abruptly red near anthesis; style pinkish red. Perianth usually glabrous outside or occasionally with scattered erect simple glandular hairs, loosely villous inside. Pistil 25.5-35 mm long; ovary densely villous; style loosely villous with biramous hairs, thinning towards apex. Follicle broadly ellipsoidal, 8-11 mm long, faintly rugulose, loosely villous to subsericeous.
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