Open erect shrub 1-2.5 m tall. Branchlets densely sericeous. Leaves dorsiventral, 2.5-4.5 cm long, pinnatisect with 3-11 primary lobes, these usually again 2-or 3-sect; ultimate lobes divaricate, linear, 0.5-2 cm long, 0.5-1.0 mm wide; leaf rachis deflexed at nodes; margins angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, 2-grooved, silky in grooves. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, erect to decurved, simple or to 6-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, subsynchronous to weakly basipetal; ultimate floral rachis (30-) 40-80 mm long, loosely to sparsely sericeous. Flowers acroscopic to irregularly oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style white; limb of bud yellow-green. Perianth loosely bearded inside near base. Pistil 4-5 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter oblique at c. 30º to style, obliquely conical. Follicle obloid-obovoid or slightly obovoid, 8-10 mm long, smooth to faintly rugulose.
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