Dense shrub 1-3 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves 1.5-2.7 cm long, divaricately tripartite to biternate, with lateral lobes usually 2-or 3-partite; ultimate lobes linear, straight, 1-2.5 (-4.5) cm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide; apices pungent; margins angularly revolute; lower surface 2-grooved, often a narrow exposure of glabrous lamina at least at nodes. Unit conflorescence ?acropetal, very loose (flowers well-spaced), subcylindrical; floral rachis filiform, glabrous or nearly so. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream; buds with pale yellow-green limb. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3-3.5 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid; pollen-presenter conical, base slightly wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 7-9 mm long, smooth.
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