Spreading shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets loosely subsericeous. Leaves ascending, 3-5 cm long, deeply 3-6-partite; lobes divaricate, entire, linear, 1.5-3.5 cm long, 1.2-1.5 (-2.0) mm wide, rigid, pungent; margins revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, 2-grooved, sericeous in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect, regular and umbelloid dome-shaped, or sometimes subsecund, acropetal; floral rachis 2-3 mm long, subsericeous. Flowers adaxially oriented; pedicels loosely subsericeous. Flower colour: perianth grey-white outside, cream inside; style off-white becoming pinkish brown, with a green tip. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside, bearded inside opposite ovary. Pistil 8-10.5 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter very oblique to almost lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal to obovoid, 14-17 mm long, obtusely attenuate at apex, glabrous, colliculose.
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