Low dense shrub to 1 m tall. Leaves 1-2 cm long, 20-40 mm wide, divaricate, deeply 3-9-partite with primary lobes usually again 3-partite, sometimes with some similar third-order division; ultimate lobes linear to subulate, 7-15 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, pungent; margins revolute, enclosing lower surface except for midveins of leaf and lobes; lower surface bisulcate, silky in grooves. Conflorescence erect; terminal, usually simple, ?basipetal, a loose, often semisecund cluster; rachis 2-7 mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth rose pink with a white to cream limb; style pinkish red. Perianth tomentose or sparsely villous outside with mixed biramous and simple, erect, glandular hairs, bearded inside. Pistil 18-20 mm long; ovary villous; style loosely villous. Follicle subglobose to ellipsoidal, 10-12 mm long, sparsely villous with hairs easily caducous.
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