Triumfetta digitata (Oliv.) Sprague & Hutch.

Woody shrub (0.6–)0.9(–1.2) m tall, with ascending, blackish brown, sometimes very hairy branches to 5 mm thick from a single stem.. Leaves pedate or deeply pedatifid, usually completely divided, with (3–)5 leaflets, uppermost leaves often only deeply trifid, 2–8 cm long, 3–14.5 cm wide; leaflets sessile, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to linear, 1.7–7 cm long, 0.5–1.3 cm wide, acute, cuneate, sessile, margin serrate, teeth up to 2 mm long, with secondary and tertiary veins prominent above, dirty white beneath, grey-brown stellate-scabrid on both surfaces, more densely so beneath; petiole 1–4 cm long, terete, dull grey-brown densely stellate-hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, 10–12 mm long, 2–3 mm wide.. Inflorescences terminal, congested, hairy; peduncles 2–7-flowered, branching 2–3 times, opposite a narrowly ovate reduced leaf 6–9 mm long, 2–4 mm wide; bracts slightly smaller than the reduced leaves; pedicels ± 1 mm long.. Sepals narrowly elliptic, 12.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, with subterminal spine 4 mm long, outside densely stellate-hairy.. Petals spathulate, the blade rounded, 5 mm long, 5.5 mm wide, upper margin sinuate; claw 9 mm long, ± 1 mm wide, with a narrow, densely hairy band on the inner surface ± 1 mm from the base; stamens 40–60; ovary densely villose, hairs 1 mm long.. Fruit oblate, indehiscent, 10–11 mm long, 15–18 mm wide, completely covered by more than 100 weak bristles ± 1.5 mm long, each bristle densely covered by interlocking reddish hairs in the lower part.. Fig. 11/10– 11 (p. 71).