Prostrate to erect shrub 0.2-1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous to sparsely tomentose. Leaves dorsiventral, (2-) 4-18 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, very variable in form from 3-7-fid to deeply 3-7-partite, frequently with shallow to deep secondary division, occasionally a few leaves entire and narrowly obovate; ultimate lobes ascending or rarely spreading, broadly to narrowly triangular or sublinear, 10-25 mm long, 2-12 mm wide; margins flat to recurved or rarely shortly revolute; lower surface mostly or wholly exposed, glabrous or sparsely sericeous, sometimes glaucous, minutely pitted. Conflorescence axillary or terminal, erect, simple or to 6-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical or shortly so, basipetal to subsynchronous; ultimate floral rachis 10-60 mm long, glabrous to sericeous. Flowers ±acroscopic. Perianth mealy to papillose inside. Pistil 4-5 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect to slightly oblique, broadly conical, usually lacking projecting basal flange, rarely (subsp. minyulo ) flange present. Follicle obliquely ellipsoidal to obliquely obovoid, 8-13 mm long, rugulose.
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