Erect to spreading shrub 0.6-2 m tall. Branchlets sericeous or loosely so or glabrous. Leaves 2.5-5 cm long, divaricately 3-sect with primary lobes often again 3-sect; ultimate lobes linear-subulate or subterete-dipleural, 0.5-3 cm long, 0.7-1.3 mm wide; margins obscure; lower surface obscure except for prominent midveins, leaf segments with a silky lateral groove on either side. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, simple or to 4-branched; unit conflorescence conico-secund, decurved, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 10-20 (-30) mm long, glabrous or sparsely silky. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white or sometimes pale pink. Perianth sparsely to densely pilose inside. Pistil 10-17 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter oblique at c. 60º to style, convex. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal to subovoid, 9-13.5 mm long, rugulose.
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