Dense shrub 1-2 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Leaves 2-3 (-6) cm long, divaricately 3-or 5-partite, mostly biternate to triternate, sometimes tripartite or with only the lateral primary lobes divided; ultimate lobes linear, 0.5-2 (-4) cm long, 0.3-0.8 mm wide; apices pungent; margins angularly and tightly revolute against very prominent midribs; lower surface 2-grooved. Unit conflorescence acropetal, subglobose to domed-subumbelloid; floral rachis glabrous. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream, sometimes tinged pink; buds pink. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil c. 3.5 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter conical, base usually clearly broader than apex of style. Follicle obloid to slightly obovoid, 6-9 mm long, smooth.