Prostrate shrub with trailing stems to 3 m long. Branchlets angular, openly villous. Leaves 1.5-2 cm long, bipinnatisect; ultimate lobes narrowly linear, ascending to spreading, 5-10 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide; upper surface sparsely pilose, occasionally glabrous, smooth to finely granulose, not pitted; margins revolute; lower surface sometimes exposed on either side of midvein, pilose. Conflorescence erect or decurved, conico-secund, 12-30-flowered, acropetal; rachis 8-15 mm long, openly subsericeous to-tomentose. Flower colour: perianth pink to pale red with cream limb; style pink, red or orange red with yellow tip. Perianth glabrous outside except for scattered minute hairs on limb (these rarely absent), pubescent inside. Pistil 22-24 mm long. Follicle erect, obloid, 12-15 mm long, with a conspicuous transverse ridge just above base and 2-4 strong longitudinal ridges running from it.
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