Spreading shrub to 1 m high. Leaves 2-7.5 (-9.5) cm long, 1-5 cm wide, pinnatisect to partly bipinnatifid or rarely pinnatifid, with 5-19 (-21) primary lobes, sometimes a few leaves bi-or tripartite or entire; primary lobes 3-5 (-7)-fid or-partite, or simple; ultimate lobes broadly to narrowly triangular or linear-oblong or obovate-cuneate, (0.5-) 2-18 mm long, 1.5-7 mm wide; margins shortly recurved to shortly revolute; lower surface exposed, sparsely pilose or occasionally glabrous, asperous. Conflorescence terminal or in upper axils, erect, pedunculate, usually simple, c. 1.5-4.5 cm long, cylindrical to obovoid, basipetal. Perianth very sparsely glandular-pubescent or occasionally glabrous outside, glabrous inside; tepals independently relaxed after anthesis. Pistil 5-8.5 (-10) mm long; ovary shortly stipitate, with glandular hairs; style with few to many spreading glandular hairs, becoming granular-papillose in swollen upper third, not exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter ±conical. Follicles ovoid to ellipsoidal, 5.5-9 mm long, viscid, glandular-pubescent to glabrous, pitted.
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