Shrub 1-4 m tall; branchlets occasionally secund, glaucous or not. Leaves (3-) 6-25 cm long, mostly or all 3-9-sect, the primary lobes often again 3-7-partite, rarely with tertiary division, sometimes a few leaves entire; ultimate lobes ascending, usually > 10 per leaf, subterete-linear or trigonous-linear to-oblanceolate, 1-13 cm long, 0.5-3.5 mm wide; margins incurved, flat, or (subterete lobes) obscure; surfaces silky when young, soon glabrous, granulose. Conflorescence erect, terminal on emergent canes, 0-5-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, basipetal; floral rachis 60-200 mm long, glabrous or occasionally with a few glandular hairs near base. Pistil 14-21.5 mm long; style-end with a subapical globose dilation then constricted below erect narrowly conical pollen-presenter. Follicle ovoid to subglobose, 7-18 mm long, glabrous or with glandular hairs, developing pustule-like usually viscid craters.
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