Shrub 0.5-2.5 m high, to 4 m across. Leaves 1-13.5 cm long, sometimes entire and linear and 0.6-2.6 mm across, and/or variously divided, usually either deeply 2-9-partite or-sect with ascending linear lobes 0.8-1.9 mm across and basal lobes rarely again 2-or 3-partite, or narrowly cuneate and apically digitate, to c. 10 mm wide (at base of lobes) with 3-10 (-23) short ascending apical lobes or teeth; apices ±pungent; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface usually enclosed except for midvein, densely tomentose with flexuose and/or curled hairs in grooves especially near lobe sinuses. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 25-80 mm long. Perianth subsericeous to villous. Pistil 18-21.5 (-23) mm long; ovary ±sessile; style usually glabrous, rarely a few papillae or minute simple erect hairs near middle of ventral side. Follicle 12-18 mm long, tomentose with biramous hairs and sometimes also simple erect glandular hairs.
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