Erect and spreading shrub. Branchlets angular, ridged, glabrous. Leaves 1-2.5 (-3.5) cm long, 7-15 (-22) mm wide (across lobes), 3-fid to-partite and broadly cruciform with 3 spreading rounded apically spinescent lobes and sometimes a few secondary teeth, or occasionally (juvenile?) simple and panduriform (fiddle-shaped) and apically 3-toothed; leaves broadening towards base and with rounded basal auriculate stem-clasping lobes; upper surface with venation very conspicuous; margins undulate, sometimes slightly decurved; lower surface glabrous. Conflorescence decurved, secund, 26-28-flowered, acropetal; rachis 5-10 mm long, glabrous. Flower colour: perianth reddish green; style reddish. Perianth glabrous outside, densely bearded inside. Pistil (20-) 28-30 mm long. Follicles narrowly ovoid, 13-17 mm long, glabrous, faintly colliculose.
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