Dense, irregular, sprawling shrub c. 2-3 m high. Branchlets terete to slightly angular, ribbed, ±glabrous. Leaves 2.5-6 cm long, with rachis usually refracted at first node, divaricately pinnatipartite, once or twice divided into curved, elliptic to linear, rigid, pungent lobes 1-3 cm long and 1.5-5 mm wide; upper surface smooth to wrinkled, not pitted, glabrous; margins angularly but irregularly refracted; lower surface partly exposed, glabrous. Conflorescence deflexed or decurved or sometimes erect, secund to hemispherical, 12-20-flowered, acropetal; rachis 13-20 (?-30) mm long, ±glabrous. Flower colour: perianth yellowish orange, rarely yellow; style red, rarely yellow with green to yellowish tip. Perianth glabrous outside, sparingly bearded inside. Pistil 29-35 mm long. Follicle narrowly ovoid-ellipsoidal with truncated base, 13-17 mm long, with a broad basal transverse ridge or bulge, glabrous, slightly longitudinally ridged and faintly granular.
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