Suffrutex, 0.5-1(-1.8) m tall, glabrous. Stems simple or weakly branched; smooth to longitudinally grooved, glabrous to pilose. Pith predominant. Bark absent or weakly developed. Leaves with a maximum length of 11-12.5(-32) cm including distinct petiole (2.5-)3.5-4.3(-10) cm long, canaliculate, somewhat carinate, or sometimes terete, usually widely or deeply sulcate, glabrous to sparsely pilose in the groove, base non-amplexicaul, rarely amplexicaul; outline variable, trisect or pinnately and/or pedately compound, or bipinnatifid; incision usually decursive. Pinnae very narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate or obovate, up to 3.5-8.3(-16) x 0.5-1(-2) cm; apex acuminate to truncate, mucronate; margins entire or somewhat crenulate, glabrous; base attenuate to cuneate; midrib rarely with a few sparse hairs at the base. Inflorescence a lax panicle of compound umbels, inflorescence leaves markedly reduced only in var. transvaalensis; main florescence of few, (10-)14-19(-25), thin rays, 2.9-5 cm long, and (9-)11-16(-28) raylets, 3-7(-10) mm long. Involucral bracts small. Petals cream-coloured to greenish yellow, higher than, or as high as broad. Ovary more than twice as long as the stylopodium. Fruit glabrous, obovoid, 3-9x2-5 mm; vittae solitary in the valleculae, two on the commissure.
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