Dense shrub 0.7-3 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or occasionally densely subsericeous. Leaves (1-) 2.5-6 cm long, divaricately divided with 3 (5) primary lobes, these simple or occasionally lateral lobes again 2-or 3-partite; ultimate lobes (1-) 2-4 cm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, straight, linear, with terminal lobe deflexed; apices subpungent; margins tightly and angularly to smoothly revolute; lower surface completely enclosed except for prominent midribs, the 2 grooves almost lateral. Unit conflorescence acropetal, subumbelloid to subglobose; floral rachis glabrous or occasionally subsericeous. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream; limb of bud pale yellow. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3-4 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter conical to truncate-conical, base rimmed, slightly wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, (6-) 8-9 mm long, strongly rugose with low longitudinal ridges drawn into short irregular peaks, or sometimes strongly muricate.
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