Shrub 0.8-3 m high. Branchlets glaucous, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs. Leaves dorsiventral, 6-14 cm long, 3-7-sect, with lateral primary lobes often again 3-sect; ultimate lobes divaricate, linear or linear-subulate, 1-6 cm long, 0.8-1.5 (-2.0) mm wide; leaf rachis angularly deflexed at each node; margins angularly revolute, enclosing lower surface except for midveins; lower surface 2-grooved, silky in grooves. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, erect, simple or to 6-branched; unit conflorescence conico-cylindrical, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 40-60 mm long, glabrous or openly subsericeous. Flowers mostly acroscopic, or sometimes oblique to rachis. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream. Perianth bearded inside near base. Pistil 5.5-6 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter oblique to style, obliquely conical. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 8.5-13.5 mm long, rugulose.
Grows in open shrub associations, often in rocky sites, sometimes on level ground, in gravelly or sandy soil.
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