Prostrate to low mounded dense shrub, 0.2-0.5 m tall, 1-2 m across. Leaves 10-30 cm long, pinnatipartite with 5-19 linear entire lobes; lobes either 2-13 cm long and 1.1-1.4 mm wide, or 0.3-2 cm long and 0.7-0.9 mm wide, pungent; margins tightly and smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, tomentose in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect or decurved, often lax on or near ground at base of foliage, secund; floral rachis 60-170 mm long. Perianth subsericeous to lanate outside. Pistil 24-28 mm long; stipe 0.4-1.2 mm long; style subsericeous at base with biramous hairs extending up to 8 mm from ovary, otherwise glabrous. Follicle 15-19 mm long, open-tomentose with mixed biramous and simple erect glandular hairs.