Prostrate, root-suckering shrub to 20 cm high; ramets to 1 m across; clonal units to ?30 m across. Leaves usually narrowly ovate to narrowly oblong in gross outline, (2.5-) 6-14 cm long, 15-75 mm wide, pinnatifid to pinnatipartite or sometimes serrato-dentate, with 5-18 teeth or lobes, these usually entire or the lowermost 2-or 3-toothed; ultimate teeth or lobes triangular to oblong, 0.5-3.5 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, pungent; margins recurved to shortly revolute; lower surface loosely subsericeous or with a sparse appressed indumentum. Unit conflorescence erect to slightly curved, secund; floral rachis 20-25 mm long. Flower colour: perianth greenish in late bud, becoming cream to pale pink with a purplish limb; style cream becoming pink to reddish with a green tip. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside. Pistil 26-30.5 mm long (flowers often digynous to polygynous); ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Fruit and seed apparently not produced.
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