Prostrate to procumbent to dense mounded or erect shrub 0.3-2 (-4) m high. Leaves 2-13 cm long, pinnatipartite, sometimes partly bipinnatipartite, often some leaves entire and linear on flowering branches; primary lobes (4-) 8-24, linear, ascending, (1-) 2-10 cm long, 0.7-1.5 (-2.2) mm wide, subpungent; margins tightly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence straight on a straight to decurved peduncle, either erect-emergent above foliage, or trailing to prostrate and emergent from foliage at ground level; unit conflorescence usually loosely subcylindrical or sometimes a short loose cluster, 8-40-flowered, basipetal; rachis 20-100 mm long, subsericeous to tomentose. Flowers abaxially basiscopic. Perianth with mixed appressed biramous and simple-erect glandular hairs outside, pilose inside. Pistil 35-47 mm long, glabrous or with a few appressed hairs on dorsal side of stipe and ovary; ovary wrinkled with an auricular lobe on either flank towards suture. Follicles erect to oblique on pedicels, 12-17 mm long, glabrous, with prominent irregular ridging on either side near suture.
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