Compact shrub 0.6-1.5 m high. Leaves 1.5-5 cm long, rigid, divaricately pinnatipartite to bipinnatipartite to almost bipinnatisect; primary lobes 3-5 (-9), simple to biternate; ultimate lobes terete, 0.5-2 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm diam., acuminate, pungent, finely scabrous, usually glabrous. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, erect, sessile or pedunculate, usually 2-5-branched; unit conflorescence 2.5-4 cm long, cylindrical, acropetal to subsynchronous. Flower colour: perianth greenish white becoming creamy yellow outside, paler inside; style cream to yellow. Perianth glabrous outside or with scattered appressed biramous hairs on limb only, glabrous inside; tepals independently recoiled after anthesis. Pistil 3.8-5.2 mm long; ovary ±sessile, loosely villous with an underlying indumentum of short simple glandular hairs; style ±sigmoid above ovary, minutely papillose, swollen in upper third; pollen-presenter subcylindrical, longitudinally ridged. Follicles obovoid to subglobose, 7-8 mm long, tuberculose-rugose, viscid along suture.
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