Spreading shrub 0.3-0.7 m high. Leaves (2-) 4-9.5 cm long, usually bipinnatipartite to pinnatipartite with 5-9 primary lobes, or rarely an odd leaf linear or 2-or 3-partite; primary lobes weakly divaricate, usually again 2-5-partite; ultimate lobes rigid, subterete, 0.5-4 cm long, 0.9-1.3 mm wide, pungent; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence usually sparingly branched; unit conflorescence erect to decurved, secund; floral rachis 15-80 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pinkish red; style red. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside (biramous hairs only), glabrous inside. Pistil 24.5-30 mm long; style subsericeous for 4-6 mm above ovary, otherwise glabrous or with minute simple hairs. Follicle 10-13 mm long, subsericeous.
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