Dense shrub 0.5-3 m tall with tangled foliage. Branchlets with an open appressed indumentum. Leaves 8-16 cm long (when straightened), pinnatisect to partly quadripinnatisect, with all lobes widely divaricate; ultimate lobes linear-subterete, dipleural, 2-8 cm long, 0.4-1.1 mm across; margins very tightly revolute to sides of midvein; segments with a lateral silky groove each side; lower surface obscure except for prominent midveins. Conflorescence usually terminal, simple or to 4-branched, erect; unit conflorescence ovoid to narrowly conico-cylindrical, strongly acropetal; rachis 50-80 mm long, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs. Flowers acroscopic to transverse. Flower colour: buds green becoming yellow; perianth after anthesis pale greenish white to light cream; style white. Perianth usually glabrous inside (rarely papillose or sparsely pilose near base). Pistil 4.5-5.5 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect with an oblique base, obliquely truncate-conical, with basal flange. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 11-15 mm long, rugose-tuberculate.
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