Prostrate to low shrub 0.1-0.4 m high. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely to densely subsericeous to tomentose. Leaves dorsiventral, 3-29 cm long, flexuose or not, very variable, simple and toothed, rarely entire, to compound pinnatifid to partly tripinnatisect with up to 3 orders of division; primary lobes 7-15; ultimate lobes occasionally divaricate, triangular to ovate, oblong, or sublinear, 0.2-3.5 (-11) cm long, 1-5 mm wide; margins flat to revolute; lower surface glabrous or sparsely to densely silky to tomentose. Conflorescence terminal, erect, simple or to 3-branched; unit conflorescence secund to secund-obconical, loose, basipetal; ultimate floral rachis 30-50 mm long, glabrous or sericeous. Flowers acroscopic to transverse. Flower colour: perianth and style pale pink to deep lilac-pink. Perianth glabrous outside or with appressed to ascending hairs, minutely papillose inside; dorsal tepals flaring widely and partially everted before anthesis, forming a small platform. Pistil 4-6 mm long; style exposed but scarcely exserted before anthesis; pollen-presenter oblique to style, conical, basally flanged. Follicle obovoid to subclavate, 9-14 mm long, smooth to rugulose, red.
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