Prostrate shrub to 2 m across, with emergent floral scapes to 0.4 m high. Leaves pinnatipartite to pinnatisect, 3-7.5 (-20?) cm long; margins slightly thickened, flat or occasionally shortly recurved; primary lobes 5-11, ovate-cuneate, 3-7-fid; ultimate lobes or teeth broadly triangular, ±pungent; both surfaces glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Conflorescence terminal or rarely axillary, usually on erect emergent scapes, simple, umbelloid or hemispherical, acropetal, many-flowered; floral rachis 5-8 mm long. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth green in bud, white to cream at anthesis; style white with greenish pollen-presenter. Perianth glabrous outside, pilose inside near ovary, glabrous above; tepals remaining loosely coherent except along dorsal suture. Pistil 15-19 mm long; ovary stipitate, glabrous; style papillose above ovary, otherwise glabrous, exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter strongly oblique. Follicles ±ellipsoidal, 10-13 mm long, with viscid warts.
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