Shrub 0.9-1.5 (-2.5) m tall. Branchlets tomentose to subvillous. Leaves 3-7 cm long, basally linear-cuneate then (2-or) 3-partite with simple ascending somewhat divaricate linear-lanceolate lobes, or sometimes leaves entire and broadly linear to narrowly oblanceolate and 3-8 mm wide; lobes 12-43 mm long, 1-4.5 (-8) mm wide; apices weakly pungent; margins recurved to angularly revolute; lower surface partly exposed on either side of midveins, tomentose to subvillous. Unit conflorescence acropetal, shortly subconical to subcylindrical; floral rachis tomentose to subvillous. Flower colour: perianth white with limb of bud pale yellow; style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3.6-4.3 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter narrowly conical, base a little wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm long, rugose-tuberculate.
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