Spreading shrub 0.5-1 m high, 1-2 m wide. Branchlets angular to terete, glabrous or sparsely (rarely densely) sericeous. Leaves 1-2.5 (-3) cm long, obtuse, mucronate, entire and linear to very narrowly elliptic and/or 2-5-pinnatipartite or-pinnatisect (usually both states present); entire leaves 1-1.5 (-2) mm wide; primary lobes entire, 2-8 (-17) mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide; upper leaf surface smooth, not or scarcely pitted, soon glabrous; margins shortly recurved or revolute; lower surface usually narrowly exposed on either side of midvein, subsericeous. Conflorescence erect to decurved, secund, 6-14-flowered, basipetal; rachis 5-15 mm long, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs. Flower colour: perianth pink-red with creamy limb; style red with green tip. Perianth usually with a few minute appressed hairs outside, especially on limb, otherwise glabrous or nearly so, pubescent inside. Pistil 24-28 mm long. Follicle obloid-acuminate to ellipsoidal, 12-13 mm long, faintly ridged at base, ribbed, wrinkled.
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