Spreading to erect shrub 2.0-4.5 m high, to 3 m across. Leaves pinnatipartite, 2.5-14 cm long, 20-65 mm wide, with 5-19 primary lobes each simple to 5-fid; ultimate lobes narrowly to broadly triangular to oblong-elliptic, 0.5-2.5 cm long, 3-17 mm wide, sometimes pungent; margins recurved to shortly revolute; lower surface mostly exposed, densely tomentose with curled hairs. Unit conflorescence erect or slightly decurved, dense, secund; floral rachis 30-85 mm long. Flower colour: perianth greenish white to pale fawn-yellow on curve and limb, inside blackish; style white to cream (not reddening with age). Perianth tomentose outside. Pistil 11-18 mm long; stipe 0.3-1.1 mm long. Follicle 8-11 mm long, softly tomentose.