Erect shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves dorsiventral, those of flowering branches 5-10 cm long, 50-70 mm wide, on vegetative branches 15-26 cm long, 100-160 mm wide, subpinnatisect with 7-18 primary lobes, these 3-5-fid, not divaricate; ultimate lobes broadly to narrowly triangular, 0.5-3 cm long, 5-10 mm wide; leaf rachis strongly flexuose, less so on primary lobes; margins shortly recurved; lower surface glabrous, glaucous. Conflorescence erect, terminal or in upper axils, simple or to 3-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical to obovoid, basipetal; ultimate floral rachis 35-65 mm long, glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style cream to pale yellow. Perianth papillose inside. Pistil 5-8.5 mm long; style exposed but scarcely exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect, convex to conical with projecting basal flange. Follicle ovoid, apically attenuate, c. 20 mm long, rugulose.
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