A low straggling shrub with prostrate stems and erect or procumbent branches, often dominant in carpeting masses; sometimes (as in Johnston 154) with small and densely congested leaves.. Stems woody or sometimes ± herbaceous at the extremities, rooting rather infrequently at the nodes, usually reddish-brown, covered (often thickly) with long, ascending or ± spreading, whitish hairs, rarely glabrous.. Stipules ± 3–8(–20) mm. long, the lower half (approx.) membranous, the upper half a spreading, foliaceous, lobed limb.. Leaves petiolate, often leathery, circular to reniform in outline, 3–5(–7)-lobed, 5–40 mm. long and usually broader than long; lobes often up to 1 cm. deep, obtuse or rounded, apically entire or dentate, sometimes appearing emarginate owing to the reduced size of the central tooth, often markedly folded along the midribs and with the basal sinus varying from wide to narrow and almost closed.. Inflorescences usually short, simple or branched; pedicels up to 3.5 mm. long, sparsely hirsute with long, ± ascending hairs.. Calyx-lobes triangular to ovate-triangular, 1.5–2 mm. long, with a few hairs on the outside and margins; epicalyx-lobes lanceolate, shorter than the calyx-lobes.. Achenes 1(–2).
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