Erect shrub 2-2.5 m tall, with fastigiate (clustered) branches. Leaves 1.8-4.5 cm long, sometimes linear, otherwise 3-7-partite with rigid linear lobes clustered at apex of leaf rachis; lobes 5-20 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, rectangular in cross-section, pungent; margins angularly twice refracted, enclosing lower surface except for midveins. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 45-80 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pale brown to rusty brown; style orange-red to scarlet throughout. Perianth tomentose-villous outside, especially villous on limb. Pistil 19-22 mm long; ovary sessile or subsessile; style with a sparse indumentum of minute curled or erect hairs on ventral side. Follicle c. 10 mm long, initially subsericeous with biramous hairs but near maturity these falling and being replaced with a pubescent indumentum of erect simple glandular hairs.
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