Prostrate shrub c. 1 m across, with trailing secund branches, sometimes matforming. Leaves 3-7 cm long, ±pinnatisect, subpectinate; margins revolute, sometimes shortly so; lobes (2-) 4-12 (-15) each side, ±opposite and mutually aligned, narrowly cuneate to oblong or linear, 10-40 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, acute to obtuse, mucronate; lower surface tomentose to lanate, often mostly obscured except midvein and then 2-grooved. Conflorescence trailing, usually terminal, usually pedunculate, irregularly branched; unit conflorescence ±regular, umbel-like, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 5-13 mm long. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth pale pink outside, white inside, with limb green turning pink; style white becoming pinkish red from tip. Perianth glabrous outside, glabrous to sparsely pilose inside; tepals becoming strongly everted before anthesis to form an annular platform ventral to the style, remaining coherent at limb afterwards with pale inner surfaces displayed. Pistil 6-9 mm long; ovary stipitate, glabrous, later becoming glandular-pubescent; style glabrous, exposed in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral or almost so. Follicles obovoid or sometimes obloid, 13-16 mm long, rugose, pilose with glandular hairs.
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