Shrub to c. 1 m high, spreading to 2.5 m wide. Branchlets terete, loosely or densely villous to pubescent. Leaves usually crowded, 0.6-2 cm long, obtuse, mucronate, entire, linear or bi-or trifid, occasionally pinnatipartite with up to 7 entire primary lobes, both entire and divided leaves usually present; leaf lobes 1.5-8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, strongly ascending; upper surface glabrous to loosely to sparsely villous, conspicuously (rarely obscurely) pitted; margins smoothly to angularly revolute; lower surface obscured, sometimes villous in groove. Conflorescence decurved, secund, c. 10-16-flowered, weakly basipetal; floral rachis 5-13 mm long, densely to sparsely subsericeous to subtomentose or with scattered hairs. Flower colour: perianth pale to deep pink red; style red with green tip. Perianth glabrous outside or occasionally with a very few minute appressed hairs on limb, tomentose-pubescent inside. Pistil 20-25 mm long. Follicle obloid-acuminate to ellipsoidal, 12-13 mm long, with an obscure irregular slanting ridge or bulge just above base and a longitudinal subdorsal ridge on either side.
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