Prostrate, straggling or clumping shrub, to 0.5 m tall, to c. 1.2 m across. Leaves usually ovate to oblong in gross outline, 2-18 cm long, 20-60 mm wide, pinnatifid to pinnatipartite or toothed or rarely entire; primary lobes 2-21, entire to 5-fid; ultimate lobes triangular to narrowly ovate, 0.5-3 cm long, 0.2-1.5 cm wide, sometimes pungent; margins flat to shortly recurved; lower surface with an open indumentum of ascending, rarely closely appressed curved to curled hairs. Unit conflorescence erect to decurved, secund; floral rachis 35-60 mm long. Flower colour: perianth light green to yellow outside, purplish to black inside; style dull yellow to pale or dark pink with a red or green tip. Perianth loosely tomentose to villous outside. Pistil 12-16 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 10-12 mm long, subsericeous to subvillous.
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