Low multistemmed spreading to weakly erect shrub 15-50 cm tall. Leaves 40-65 mm long, (12-) 20-34 mm wide, rhomboid in gross outline, basally long-cuneate, pinnatifid with (3-) 9-13 (-15) simple subtriangular teeth or lobes spaced evenly in apical 1/2-2/3 of leaf; teeth or lobes 2-6 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, pungent; margins very shortly recurved; lower surface tomentose with wavy biramous hairs. Unit conflorescence erect to gently decurved, strongly secund; floral rachis 10-20 (-35?) mm long. Flower colour: perianth pinkish red to maroon with a gingery brown limb (hairs); style red. Perianth outer surface villous on limb segments, densely tomentose below with both biramous and simple glandular hairs. Pistil 29-30 mm long; stipe 0.8-1.0 mm long; style sometimes with a few long biramous hairs mostly in basal 5-10 mm and with minute purplish glandular hairs scattered over basal 15-20 mm, glabrous above. Follicle 11-13 mm long, tomentose.
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