Rounded silvery to bluish grey, sometimes lignotuberous, shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets conspicuously angular, silky. Leaves secund, 4-6 cm long, pinnatisect with 5-15 lobes; lobes long-linear, 4-16, 4-12.5 cm long, 0.8-2.2 mm wide, pliable; upper surface smooth, densely subsericeous becoming glabrous; margins angularly refracted; lower surface enclosed except prominent midvein, 2-grooved, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence decurved, secund to cylindrical, 20-30-flowered, subsynchronous or weakly basipetal; rachis 35-60 mm long, subsericeous to pubescent. Flower colour: perianth pale pink, orange-pink or reddish pink with a greenish yellow limb; style greenish pink with green tip. Perianth sparsely subsericeous outside, denser on limb, bearded inside at curve. Pistil 22-24 mm long, glabrous. Follicle 1-13 mm long, obloid-ellipsoidal, with obscure slanting basal ridge, rugulose, glabrous.
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