The stolons usually with well-developed leaves bearing offsets or floral shoots in their axils; basal and lower stem-leaves orbicular-reniform, 1.5-4 cm. broad, stiff, deeply cordate, the lobes serrate; blades green and glabrate above, appressed-silky beneath, the surface beneath the silky hairs glaucous with minute waxy particles; petioles sericeous, 3-6 (-20) cm. long; stipules of the upper leaves foliaceous, forming a somewhat tubular sheath, deeply incised, the lobes not spread-ing nor recurving; inflorescence racemose, often terminal and 4-6 cm. long in Panamanian material seen; flowers relatively large, at maturity 3.5-4 mm. long, densely silky; achenes 2-4.
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