Usually robust, erect shrub 2-3 m high or sometimes a low spreading shrub 0.2-1 m high and 2-3 m wide. Branchlets angular, subsericeous or sparsely so, rarely glabrous, sometimes densely pubescent. Leaves (1.5-) 2.5-8 cm long, entire and linear or rarely some or all 2-5-sect; lobes linear, 1-4 cm long, 0.5-2 (-2.8) mm wide, obtuse, mucronate; upper surface smooth, soon glabrous; margins revolute or sometimes recurved; lower surface 2-grooved or slightly exposed beside midvein and subsericeous. Conflorescence deflexed or decurved, shortly secund to subcylindrical, loose, 12-20-flowered, subsynchronous; rachis 5-20 mm long, subsericeous to sparsely so. Flower colour: perianth and style pink-red to red, with yellowish style-end. Perianth glabrous outside or rarely sparsely hairy on limb only, pubescent inside about ovary, elsewhere glabrous except along tepal margins. Pistil 20-25 mm long. Follicles obloid-acuminate to ellipsoidal, 10-13 mm long, usually faintly ribbed with an obscure slanting (rarely transverse) sub-basal ridge.
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