Shrub 0.6-1.5 m high, to 3.5 m across. Leaves ovate to narrowly so in gross outline, 2-7 cm long, (15-) 25-50 mm wide, pinnatipartite with 5-15 spreading primary lobes, these 2-5-fid, some with tertiary lobes; ultimate lobes subtriangular to narrowly oblong-ovate, 2-23 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, pungent; margins shortly recurved; lower surface sparsely tomentose along veins only, sometimes almost glabrous. Unit conflorescence erect to decurved, secund; floral rachis 10-60 mm long. Perianth loosely subsericeous to tomentose or subvillous on limb. Pistil 15.5-17 mm or 26-27.5 mm long; stipe 1.8-4 mm long; style glabrous. Follicle 9-12 mm long, tomentose or subsericeous.