Erect shrub 2-5 m tall. Leaves 3.5-19 cm long, entire and 5-20 (-30) mm wide and narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, and/or 2-7-partite with narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic ascending lobes; lowermost lobes 4-11 cm long, 6-16 mm wide; margins flat or slightly recurved; lower surface sparsely to densely sericeous. Conflorescence terminal, erect, simple or basally 2-branched; unit conflorescence subcylindrical or a loose cluster, subsynchronous or weakly acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 50-90 mm long. Flower colour: perianth rich green in basal half, yellow to orange above; style deep maroon to purplish black, with conspicuous white hairs and a maroon tip. Perianth loosely to sparsely sericeous outside, pilose inside. Pistil 30-36 mm long; stipe 8.2-9.2 mm long; ovary villous; style loosely white-villous. Follicle ellipsoidal, 16-19 mm long, loosely to sparsely villous; indumentum lacking coloured blotches.
Grows in sclerophyll forest or woodland, often in rocky situations or beside creeks, in sandy often granitic soils.
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