Prostrate to sprawling shrub to 1 m high, 2 m wide. Leaves 6-18 cm long, pinnatisect with 6-26 ascending primary lobes, the lower ones sometimes again up to 5-sect; ultimate lobes ascending, linear, 3-9 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, not pungent; margins revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, subsericeous in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect, secund, acropetal; floral rachis 120-300 mm long. Flower colour: perianth and style green, becoming bright golden yellow. Perianth openly subsericeous outside with biramous hairs, a few erect simple hairs also on limb. Pistil 54-60 mm long; style glabrous, with a pronounced dorsal hump just below style-end. Follicle 11-16 mm long, villous with both biramous and erect simple hairs.
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