Spreading shrub 0.7-2.0 m high. Leaves ovate in gross outline, 2.5-7 cm long, 25-55 mm wide, pinnatifid to pinnatipartite, with (3-) 5-7 primary lobes each usually 2-5-fid or-toothed; ultimate lobes subtriangular, 3-22 mm long, to 13 mm wide, pungent; margins flat to shortly recurved; lower surface with an open indumentum of straight to wavy appressed hairs. Unit conflorescence erect to decurved, secund; floral rachis 25-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth greenish brown; style red. Perianth subsericeous outside. Pistil (15-) 22-27 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 12.5-13.5 mm long, subsericeous.