Single-trunked shrub 2-4.5 m high. Leaves 9-25 cm long, usually 2-10-partite with ascending lobes 8-15 cm long, the lowermost sometimes again bipartite, rarely a few leaves entire; simple leaves and lobes linear, 0.7-1.5 (-2) mm wide, not pungent; margins revolute usually enclosing lower surface except for midvein; lower surface bisulcate, silky in grooves or on exposed lamina. Conflorescence erect, terminal on short lateral branchlets, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence basipetal, shortly and loosely cylindrical or a loose irregular cluster, ultimate rachis 4-12 mm long. Flowers basiscopic. Flower colour: perianth pale to deep pink with cream limb, or occasionally uniformly orange; style reddish. Perianth sericeous outside with reddish biramous hairs only, becoming scattered near apex, pubescent inside around and below ovary. Pistil 26-37 mm long; ovary subsericeous to villous; style sericeous at base becoming glabrous above. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal to subglobose, 12-16 mm long, rugulose, subsericeous to tomentose.
Can be grown by cuttings. Seeds needs soaking.
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