Shrub 1-2.5 m tall. Leaves 3-7 cm long, deeply and divaricately bi-to partly tripinnatipartite, with 6-13 primary lobes; ultimate lobes linear, 4-19 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, pungent; margins angularly revolute, on adult leaves enclosing lower surface except for midveins of leaf and lobes; lower surface bisulcate, silky in grooves. Conflorescence erect; terminal, sometimes on short lateral branchlets, usually simple, basipetal, cylindrical or shortly so or rarely a short loose cluster; rachis 15-70 mm long. Flowers basiscopic. Flower colour: perianth scarlet to bright reddish pink with a cream limb, rarely yellow-cream throughout; style red. Perianth glabrous outside, pilose inside in lower half. Pistil (20.5-) 25-27 mm long; ovary villous; style usually sparsely villous in basal c. 10 mm only, otherwise glabrous. Follicle subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, 7-10 mm long, almost smooth, loosely villous with hairs falling easily.
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