Erect shrub or small tree, 2-6 m high. Leaves 5-16 cm long, pinnatipartite with 5-18 narrowly ovate or oblong or sublinear lobes, with basal lobes sometimes again 2-or 3-partite; ultimate lobes 2.5-8 cm long, 4-12 mm wide; apices blunt; margins shortly recurved; lower surface exposed, sericeous. Conflorescence simple, erect, cylindrical, subsynchronous to acropetal; floral rachis 50-180 mm long. Flower colour: perianth white; style cream-white or occasionally greenish yellow; tip green. Perianth villous outside with biramous hairs only. Pistil 17.5-31 mm long; style glabrous, with a dorsal hump on rear of style-end. Follicle 12.5-15 mm long, tomentose to villous with ascending biramous hairs, and an underlying indumentum of shorter simple erect glandular hairs.
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