Erect to spreading shrub, 0.2-0.9 m high. Leaves mostly obovate-cuneate in outline, trifid to pinnatifid or rarely pinnatipartite, 1.5-3 (-5) cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide; basal and subfloral leaves sometimes entire, narrowly obovate; primary lobes or teeth 3-5 (-7), broadly triangular or oblong, sometimes divided; ultimate lobes or teeth subtriangular to oblong-ovate, (2-) 5-10 mm long, pungent; margins thickened, flat or slightly incurved; lower surface scabrous, loosely villous, becoming ±glabrous. Conflorescence on emergent cane, terminal, erect, usually simple, 3-12 (-50) cm long, acropetal, loosely cylindrical to subconical. Flower colour: perianth yellowish green in bud, becoming cream at anthesis; style creamy white, becoming pinkish below pollen-presenter with age. Perianth ±villous outside with simple glandular and biramous hairs, glabrous inside; tepals independently recoiled after anthesis. Pistil 5-6.5 mm long; ovary sessile, glandular-villous; style folded to deflexed above ovary, sparsely glandular-pubescent above ovary, becoming tuberculose on swollen upper fifth; pollen-presenter ±erect, conical. Follicles ovoid to slightly obovoid, 11-12 mm long, glandular-pubescent, slightly viscid.
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