Spreading shrub 0.6-1.5 m tall. Branchlets openly sericeous. Leaves 4-8 cm long, divaricately pinnatisect with 3-5 primary lobes, the lateral ones usually again 3-sect; ultimate lobes linear to subulate, 0.5-4.5 cm long, 0.6-1.2 mm wide; margins obscure, shortly revolute against sides of abaxially prominent midveins; lower surface obscure except midveins; leaf segments almost dipleural, with a silky groove along each side. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, simple or to 5-branched, erect; unit conflorescence usually secund, occasionally tending conical-cylindrical, basipetal; ultimate floral rachis 40-60 mm long, sericeous to almost glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream; buds pinkish. Perianth bearded inside near base. Pistil 7.5-9 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter strongly oblique to style, convex to broadly conical. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 9-10.5 mm long, rugulose.
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