Open prostrate to decumbent shrub 0.15-0.5 m tall, to 2 m across. Leaves 1.5-4 cm long, 6-10 mm wide, secund, pinnatipartite (almost pinnatisect) with 5-15 short mutually aligned oblong to linear lobes 1-8 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, not pungent; margins revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, bisulcate, sometimes with a few scattered appressed hairs. Conflorescence erect, terminal or axillary, simple, 1-3-flowered, rachis 0.5-1 mm long. Flowers erect. Flower colour: perianth pale pearly pink to dark pink; style deep pinkish red. Perianth glabrous outside, pilose to villous inside. Pistil 23-25 mm long; ovary villous; style loosely villous, becoming sparsely so towards apex. Follicle obloid to ellipsoidal and apiculate, 13-15 mm long, loosely villous.
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