Erect open shrub 1-2 m tall. Leaves 15-55 mm long, divaricately pinnatipartite with 3-9 primary lobes, these mostly again 3-partite, sometimes with tertiary division; ultimate lobes linear-subterete, pungent, 5-20 (-27) mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide; margins not evident; surfaces pubescent when young, soon glabrous and granulate. Conflorescence erect, terminal or occasionally also axillary, simple, somewhat emergent above foliage; unit conflorescence cylindrical, basipetal to subsynchronous; floral rachis stout, 4-8 cm long, densely and conspicuously white-villous. Flower colour: perianth pale to dark pink or cream; styles pinkish red with a pale tip, or occasionally pale pink to cream. Pistil (12-) 15-18 mm long; pollen-presenter erect, narrowly conical to subterete. Follicle ovoid, slightly compressed, 8-13 mm long, tuberculate, loosely subvillous with biramous hairs and underlying simple glandular hairs.
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