Erect shrub 1-4 m high. Leaves 6-19 cm long, pinnatisect with 6-14 ascending parallel linear lobes; lobes 5-12 cm long, 1.5-2.8 mm wide, acute, not pungent; margins revolute, enclosing most or all of the sericeous lower surface on either side of midvein. Conflorescence simple, erect, cylindrical, subsynchronous or opening irregularly; floral rachis 20-80 mm long. Flower colour: perianth cream with a ±dense indumentum of persistent brown hairs especially on limb and at base; style rich cream to pale yellow. Perianth tomentose to villous outside. Pistil 26-35 mm long; style glabrous, with a slight dorsal hump immediately below style-end. Follicle 13-14 mm long, tomentose.
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