Spreading shrub 0.5-2.5 m high. Leaves oblong to obovate in general outline, 1.5-6 cm long, 7-25 mm wide (35 mm when flat), pinnatipartite to pinnatisect or sometimes flabelliform, with 8-24 ascending closely aligned teeth or lobes; lobes linear-oblong, 3-22 mm long, 0.8-1.6 mm wide, pungent, rarely lower lobes bifid; apices pungent; margins ±revolute; lower surface mostly or wholly enclosed except midvein, ±2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal, spreading to decurved; unit conflorescence a loose, sometimes subsecund, 1-10-flowered cluster, weakly acropetal; ultimate rachis 1-5 (-8) mm long, subsericeous. Flowers variably oriented, usually acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth mauve-pink to red, often cream to yellow at base and on limb, or occasionally blackish maroon or dull grey-red throughout; style red to deep pink. Perianth loosely hairy outside with appressed biramous and erect-simple glandular hairs, pilose inside. Pistil 27-37 mm long, glabrous; ovary irregularly rugose on each flank. Follicles erect, 8-11 mm long, glabrous with prominent subventral horns or ridges on each side.
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