Spreading dense shrub 1-3 m tall. Branchlets densely subsericeous. Leaves (2-) 4-8 cm long, divaricately 3-sect with primary lobes often again 3-sect; ultimate lobes linear to subulate, 1.0-3.5 cm long, 0.6-1.0 mm wide, dipleural; margins vestigial and lateral on abaxially prominent midveins; lower surface obscure except for midveins; leaf segments with a silky lateral groove along each side. Conflorescence axillary and terminal, simple or to 4-branched, erect to decurved; unit conflorescence acropetal, usually ±secund, occasionally subcylindrical to narrowly subconical; ultimate floral rachis (15-) 20-30 mm long, loosely sericeous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white; buds tinged pink. Perianth bearded inside in lower half. Pistil 5-6 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter strongly oblique at c. 60º to style, convex to broadly conical. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 9-11 mm long, rugulose.
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