Shrub 20-40 cm tall; branches often columnar. Branchlets subsericeous or sparsely so. Leaves dorsiventral, 2.5-10 cm long; juvenile (and sometimes lower adult?) leaves 5-8 mm wide, elliptic and marginally 5-11 dentate in upper half; adult leaves linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate in outline, entire or with irregular spreading to ascending (often apical) toothing; entire leaves usually 2-5 mm wide; divided leaves 3-17 mm across lobes; leaves on floral branches usually narrower and shorter and often fewer-lobed to entire; ultimate lobes linear to narrowly ovate or narrowly subtriangular, to c. 7 mm long, 1-4 mm wide; margins revolute; lower surface enclosed, or exposed and subsericeous. Conflorescences usually terminal or subterminal or axillary, not columnar-aggregated, erect, simple or 2-4-branched; unit conflorescence subglobose to umbelloid, basipetal, c. 1 cm long; ultimate floral rachis 0.2-0.5 mm long, subsericeous to tomentose. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream. Perianth glabrous or sometimes papillose inside. Pistil 5-6 mm long; style weakly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect to slightly oblique, conical with distinct spreading basal flange. Follicle obovoid to ellipsoidal, 7.5-9.5 mm long, faintly granulate.
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