Bushy shrub c. 1.5 m high. Leaves 2.5-5 cm long, bipinnatisect; primary lobes 3-5, 2-5-partite; ultimate lobes narrowly linear to subulate, often divaricate, 0.5-2.4 cm long, 0.6-1.2 mm wide, pungent; margins tightly and angularly refracted; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, subsericeous in grooves. Unit conflorescence dense, ovoid, strongly acropetal; floral rachis 15-17 mm long. Flower colour: perianth white (hairs) below curve, with limb-hairs rusty brown; style white in basal half, pale lilac above. Perianth sericeous outside. Pistil 6-7.5 mm long; style glabrous. Follicle c. 12 mm long, sericeous.
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