Shrub 2 m tall; branches erect. Branchlets sericeous or glabrous and glaucous. Leaves dorsiventral, 5-8 cm long, 3-7 (-12)-partite with ascending parallel (non-divaricate) primary lobes; basal lobes rarely again 2-4-partite; ultimate lobes linear, 3-5 cm long, 0.7-1.0 mm wide; margins angularly revolute to midveins; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, 2-grooved, sometimes silky in grooves. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, erect, simple or to 3-branched; unit conflorescence conico-cylindrical, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 20-40 mm long, glabrous or with sparse appressed hairs. Flowers acroscopic; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Flower colour: perianth and style creamy white. Perianth bearded inside near base. Pistil 6.5-7.5 mm long; style exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect with a strongly oblique base, conical. Follicle ellipsoidal, 5-7 mm long, strongly tuberculate, with projections glandular and viscid; pericarp exfoliating.
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