A dome-shaped, prickly, sometimes suckering shrub 1-1.5 m high, 2-3 m wide. Leaves 1-3.5 cm long, divaricately pinnatisect or trisect, sometimes lower lobes again bi-or trisect; leaves on floral branches reduced, usually simple to trisect; lobes narrowly linear to trigonous, 0.4-2.5 cm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide, rigid, pungent; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface obscured, 2-grooved, with midvein prominent, higher than subtending lamina. Conflorescence terminal, usually aggregated on distinct, emergent floral branches, sometimes annually from old peduncles, erect, pedunculate; unit conflorescence loose, secund, 1-6-flowered, weakly ?acropetal; peduncle elongate, usually tomentose; rachis 3-5 mm long, tomentose. Flowers mostly acroscopic, sometimes orientation irregular or obscure. Flower colour: perianth smoky pink becoming creamy white at curve with a creamy white limb; style pink with blackish red tip. Perianth glandular-tomentose outside, villous inside. Pistil 39-48 mm long, glabrous; ovary with 2 prominent wing-like lobes on upper ventral flank. Follicles 11-14 mm long, erect, granular, transversely ridged or with 2 raised points on ventral side.
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