Shrub to 1.5 m high, to 2 m across. Leaves 2.5-3.5 cm long, mostly bipinnatisect, with 3-7 divaricate primary lobes, and lateral ones usually again divaricately 2-or 3-partite; rachis angularly deflexed at each node; ultimate lobes linear to subulate, 0.5-1.7 cm long, 0.7-1.0 mm wide, pungent; margins angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for prominent midvein, with grooves packed with flexuous to curly hairs. Unit conflorescence erect to incurved, secund; floral rachis 35-65 mm long. Flower colour: perianth bright scarlet, usually with a yellow limb; style red. Perianth subsericeous outside. Pistil 23-27 mm long; stipe c. 3 mm long; style glabrous. Follicle 10-11 mm long, pubescent.
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