Shrub 0.3-1.5 m high with arching columnar branches. Branchlets tomentose to pubescent. Leaves 0.7-2 cm long; tripartite with lateral lobes simple to tripartite; leaf rachis sharply deflexed at node; ultimate lobes subulate to sublinear, divaricate, 0.4-1.5 cm long, 0.7-1.4 mm wide; apices pungent; margins revolute, enclosing lower surface except for midveins; lower surface 2-grooved. Unit conflorescence acropetal, loosely subglobose; floral rachis loosely tomentose to almost glabrous. Flower colour: perianth creamy white with limb green to mauve; style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3.4-4.1 mm long; stylar swelling flask-shaped; pollen-presenter conical, base much broader than apex of style. Follicle obovoid or obloid-ellipsoidal, 7-8 mm long, glaucous, rugulose.
Grows in heath, shrubland, or open shrubby woodland in well-drained sandy to gravelly lateritic loams; colonises disturbed ground.
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