Compact spreading shrub 1.5-3 m tall. Leaves 3-6 cm long, pinnatipartite with 3-9 lobes; lobes ascending, simple, linear to broadly linear, rigid, 5-35 mm long and 1.3-2.5 mm wide, rectangular in cross-section, pungent or almost so; margins angularly twice refracted enclosing most or all of leaf lower surface except for midvein; lower surface tomentose with curled hairs. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 45-95 mm long. Perianth tomentose-villous outside, especially villous on limb. Pistil 22-25 mm long; ovary sessile or subsessile; style usually with few to many minute curled or erect simple hairs especially about middle on ventral side, sometimes throughout. Follicle 10-15 mm long, subsericeous with mainly biramous hairs and scattered minute erect simple ?glandular hairs.
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