Spreading shrub to c. 2 m high. Leaves ascending, (4-) 9-18 cm long, pinnatipartite, almost pinnatisect; lobes 3-9, ascending, linear or occasionally subterete to trigonous, 0.5-1 mm wide; margins tightly revolute against prominent midvein; lower surface 2-grooved. Conflorescence erect, on long peduncles, terminal or axillary, simple or 2-branched; unit conflorescence a dense globose head, weakly basipetal; rachis 5-8 mm long, villous. Flower colour: perianth (hairs) pale green to whitish below curve, red-brown on limb outside, inside exposed, creamy green, turning glossy black after anthesis; style greenish with white hairs. Perianth loosely tomentose to subvillous outside, pilose inside for c. 3 mm from base, glabrous above; tepals everting before release of style-end and displaying inner surface. Pistil 13-22 mm long; ovary densely villous; style villous at base, with long, scattered hairs above to near apex, exserted in late bud. Follicles erect on pedicels, obloid-ellipsoidal, 9-12.5 (-14) mm long, tomentose, subdorsally ridged, rugulose elsewhere.
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