Open erect shrub 1-2.5 m tall. Leaves roughly oblong in general outline, 6.5-13 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, pinnatifid with (3-) 5-11 spreading triangular evenly distributed teeth or lobes; surfaces similar, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs on midvein only. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, decurved, simple or basally 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence loose, conico-cylindrical; ultimate floral rachis (10-) 20-40 (-50) mm long. Flower colour: perianth green in bud, becoming white to cream to very pale yellow; style green becoming cream with a green tip. Perianth glabrous outside, inside glabrous and mealy or papillose or with a sparse to dense beard of short white hairs
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