Low mounded or spreading shrub, 0.3-0.7 m tall, to 2 m across. Leaves 2.5-11.5 (-26.5) cm long, with rachis sometimes markedly recurved, pinnatisect and secund-pectinate with (7-) 15-30 lobes; lobes entire, linear, often mutually aligned on either side of rachis, 0.7-6.5 cm long, 0.9-1.4 mm wide, sometimes pungent; margins angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, packed with flexuose hairs in grooves. Conflorescence often branched (usually only one branch mature), usually on trailing leafless peduncle 10-60 cm long, often lax on ground; unit conflorescence straight, secund; floral rachis 25-110 mm long. Perianth villous outside, long-villous on limb. Pistil 21.5-35 mm long; stipe 1-2.8 mm long; style loosely villous right to apex with long spreading hairs. Follicle 14-18 mm long, tomentose to shortly villous.