Dense, compact shrub 0.2-1.0 m high. Leaves 3-10.5 cm long, bipinnatipartite to partially triternate with 3-5 strongly divaricate primary lobes, these usually again 2-or 3-partite and sometimes also a third order of division; ultimate lobes linear to narrowly triangular or subulate, 0.7-4.7 cm long, 0.8-2.8 (-4) mm wide, pungent; margins often angularly refracted or sometimes more smoothly revolute; lower surface partly or completely enclosed except for midveins, subsericeous. Unit conflorescence loosely cylindrical to narrowly conical, weakly acropetal; floral rachis 10-28 mm long. Flower colour: perianth white (hairs) including on limb; style cream to pale yellow. Perianth subsericeous to loosely so outside, sometimes tomentose on limb. Pistil 3.8-5 mm long; style glabrous or occasionally with appressed biramous hairs persisting for up to 1.5 mm above subsericeous ovary. Follicle 6.5-9.5 mm long, subsericeous.
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