Shrub 0.8-1.2 m high. Leaves erect to spreading, mixed entire and divided; entire leaves linear, (0.5-) 1-5 cm long, 1.5-3.5 (-12 in juveniles) mm wide; divided leaves apically 2-or 3-fid or-partite, with weakly divaricate lobes to 10 mm long, to 2.5 mm wide; upper surface conspicuously granulose, with midvein weakly recessed and edge veins faintly ridged; margins smoothly tightly revolute; lower surface usually partly exposed either side of midvein, villous. Conflorescence erect, terminal, simple, ±sessile, umbelloid, ±acropetal; rachis 3-5 mm long, villous. Flower colour: perianth whitish; style white, rarely pink-tinged with age. Perianth appressed-villous outside, minutely pubescent or papillose inside; tepals independently recurved after anthesis. Pistil 8-12 mm long; ovary villous; style villous at base, ±glabrous or papillose above, exserted from late bud. Follicles oblique on strongly incurved stipe, obloid to obloid-ellipsoidal with a rounded apiculum, 10-14 mm long, with 3 longitudinal ridges, pubescent when young, soon glabrous.
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