Erect spindly shrub c. 1.5 m tall. Branchlets softly tomentose. Leaves 1.4-2.4 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, trimorphic; leaves of vegetative branches cuneate to ±obtrullate and 5-fid, primary lobes sometimes toothed, teeth or lobes subtriangular, 1-4 mm long, 1- wide; leaves of flower-bearing branches below the inflorescent zone more deeply divided, 3-fid to 3-partite, primary lobes again 3-fid to 3-partite, ultimate lobes triangular, 2-6 mm long, 1-2 mm wide; leaves in flower-bearing zone as previous and/or more deeply 3-5-partite with narrowly triangular to sublinear lobes 4-10 mm long, c. 1 mm wide; apices pungent; margins almost flat on lower, broader leaves, very shortly recurved and somewhat thickened on upper leaves; lower surface exposed, subsericeous to softly tomentose. Unit conflorescence acropetal, domed-subumbelloid; floral rachis openly to sparsely tomentose. Flower colour: perianth white (limb dark in bud); style white. Perianth loosely silky outside. Pistil 3 mm long; style scarcely swollen, very narrowly ovoid; pollen-presenter narrowly truncate-conical to subcylindrical, base slightly wider than apex of style. Follicle ellipsoidal, 9-10 mm long, 5 mm wide, obscurely colliculate to almost smooth.
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