Sprawling or mounded to spreading shrub to 1.5 m tall. Leaves bipinnatifid, 2-4 cm long, 20-30 mm wide, with 5-11 usually 2-or 3-fid primary lobes; ultimate lobes triangular or narrowly so, 5-12 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, pungent; margins refracted; lower surface woolly-pubescent with tightly curled hairs. Unit conflorescence decurved to pendulous or sometimes erect, conico-cylindrical to weakly secund; floral rachis 30-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth cream on curve and limb, black below and inside; style cream rapidly becoming pink to red after anthesis. Perianth sericeous outside. Pistil 16-18.5 mm long; ovary sessile or subsessile; style glabrous. Follicle c. 12 mm long.
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