Spreading shrub to c. 1 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or with a few appressed hairs. Leaves ascending, 25-45 mm long, usually with some entire and linear to narrowly elliptic and 2-4 mm wide, sometimes deeply 3-fid to-partite; lobes entire, divaricate, 5-20 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, with terminal lobe slightly deflexed; margins loosely revolute; lower surface partially exposed, glabrous. Unit conflorescence erect to decurved, shortly secund, acropetal; floral rachis 3-7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers acroscopic; pedicels glabrous. Flower colour: perianth white with pinkish tinges; style pinkish red. Perianth glabrous outside, densely papillose inside. Pistil 6-7.5 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle (immature) ellipsoidal, glabrous, colliculose.