Prostrate, often mat-forming shrub, to 3 m across. Leaves narrowly oblong to ovate or elliptic, 1.5-11.5 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, usually serrate-dentate or shallowly pinnatifid, or rarely a few leaves entire; primary teeth or lobes 5-19 (-25), spaced ±evenly around margins, to 3 mm long, sometimes with a secondary tooth on distal margin, sometimes pungent; margins shortly recurved; lower surface with an open indumentum of appressed wavy hairs, rarely glabrous. Unit conflorescence erect to decurved, secund; floral rachis 35-80 mm long. Flower colour: perianth light green or grey with reddish striations; style deep burgundy red or rarely dull pink or orange to yellow, with a green tip. Perianth subsericeous with biramous hairs outside, sometimes also with erect simple glandular hairs. Pistil 16-19 mm long; stipe 1.8-2.7 mm long; style glabrous. Follicle 10-12 mm long, sericeous.
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