Spreading shrub 0.6-4.5 m high, sometimes rhizomatous and gregarious. Branchlets tomentose to subvillous. Leaves 1-4 (-5.5) cm long, 6-35 mm wide (across lobes, flattened); either (subsp. vestita ) 3 (rarely-6)-fid or-toothed (rarely bifid or entire and then linear to oblanceolate), with primary lobes ascending, divaricate or not, sometimes again 2-or 3-fid, and ultimate lobes ovate to triangular; or (subsp. isopogoides ) 3-5-partite (rarely a few leaves entire and linear), with primary lateral lobes often again 2-or 3-partite, and ultimate lobes divaricate, usually narrowly triangular; apices often pungent; margins shortly recurved to refracted; lower surface variably exposed or enclosed, subvillous. Unit conflorescence acropetal, subglobose to domed-subumbelloid; floral rachis tomentose or rarely almost glabrous. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 4-6.1 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter conical, with base much broader than apex of style. Follicle oblong-ovoid to oblong-obovoid, 8-10.5 mm long, nearly smooth.
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