Shrub 1-2 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or with open appressed indumentum. Leaves entangled, 3-6 cm long, partly divaricately bipinnatipartite with 5 primary lobes, these again 3-lobed; ultimate lobes sublinear to subterete-dipleural, 1-2.5 cm long, 0.4-0.8 mm wide; leaf rachis deflexed at nodes; margins obscure, flat to slightly recurved against midrib; lower surface obscure except for prominent midveins and a lateral silky groove on each side of segments. Conflorescence terminal, simple or to 4-branched, erect to decurved; unit conflorescence ±cylindrical, weakly basipetal to weakly acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 20-30 mm long, glabrous or sparsely silky. Flowers ±acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style creamy white; pedicels and style reddening ?after fertilisation. Perianth glabrous inside. Pistil 4.5 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter oblique at 20º-30º to style, obliquely truncate-conical with basal flange. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 7.5-8.5 mm long, faintly rugose.
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