Decumbent to weakly upright root-suckering shrub, 0.3-1.2 m tall. Leaves ovate to rhomboid or oblong in gross outline, 3-7 cm long, 13-40 mm wide, trifid or pinnatifid with 3-16 usually entire triangular to rounded lobes or teeth, the lower ones sometimes again bifid; ultimate lobes stiff to rigid, 6-15 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, pungent; margins slightly recurved; lower surface subsericeous to tomentose. Unit conflorescence ±erect, secund; floral rachis 20-40 mm long. Flower colour: perianth greenish yellow, ageing to orange or reddish; style yellow-green or dull pink, becoming orange or reddish at anthesis. Perianth subsericeous outside, sometimes tomentose on limb. Pistil 18-26 mm long; stipe 1.8-3.7 mm long; style glabrous. Mature fruit and seed not known to be produced.
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