Decumbent to spreading shrub 0.3-1.2 m high, to 1.5 m across. Leaves 2-7.5 cm long, usually secund, divaricately bipinnatipartite (sometimes incompletely so), with 2-9 primary lobes, the lower ones mostly again tripartite; ultimate lobes linear, 6-30 mm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide, pungent; margins ±angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, with dense slender flexuose hairs in grooves. Conflorescence simple to 3-branched; unit conflorescence erect to deflexed, secund; floral rachis 25-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pinkish orange to pink-red, red shades strengthening with age, limb sometimes greenish; style deep pinkish red. Perianth basally dilated but not or scarcely saccate on ventral side, loosely tomentose outside with biramous and simple erect glandular hairs, glabrous inside. Pistil 20-24 mm long; style minutely pubescent with simple erect glandular hairs, sparser towards base and apex. Follicle c. 10 mm long, tomentose with both biramous and simple erect glandular hairs.
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