Spreading dense soft shrub c. 1.5 m high, to 3 m wide. Branchlets angular, sparsely subsericeous, soon ±glabrous. Leaves 2-4.5 cm long, pinnatipartite, sometimes basal lobes with secondary division; ultimate lobes very narrowly linear, sometimes curved, 2-20 mm long, 0.3-0.7 mm wide, becoming more spreading with age; upper surface smooth, not pitted, ±glabrous; margins tightly revolute; lower surface obscured except midvein, 2-grooved, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence erect to pendulous; unit conflorescence subsecund, lax, usually exceeding foliage, weakly basipetal, 12-30-flowered; rachis 18-30 mm long, sparsely silky. Flower colour: perianth pink to bright red with white limb; style pink with green tip. Perianth glabrous and ±glaucous outside, scantily bearded inside. Pistil 24-28 mm long. Follicles subtriangular, c. 13 mm long.