A glabrous, herbaceous perennial herb. Stems erect, 1 or several from a large tuber, up to 1 m tall, simple or branched, stout, fleshy, sometimes tinged red, leafy throughout. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, membranous, brown. Leaves obliquely ovate, up to c. 13 x 7 cm, base shallowly cordate, apex broadly acute, margins entire, sinuate or broadly and shallowly lobed, the lobes rarely subserrate, thin-textured, crisp, light green and waxy above, paler below, the young ones often white-spotted, veins (in dried material) strongly raised below particularly near the basal sinus, often reddish, petioles up to 13 cm long, but often of the order 3-5 cm, decreasing in length upwards, sometimes reddish. Inflorescences in the upper leaf axils. Flowers up to 3 cm across, white, pink or white tinged pink, tepals of S flowers usually 2, of ? flowers usually 5. Fruits 3-winged, about 2 x 2 cm across the expanded wings, placentae entire.
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Glabrous, herbaceous perennial, with one or several erect stems from a caudex, 0.15-1.05 m high, stout and fleshy. Leaves obliquely ovate, up to 130 x 70 mm, base shallowly cordate, apex broadly acute, margins entire, sinuate or shallowly lobed, thin-textured, light bright green above, paler below; petioles up to 130 mm long. Flowers up to 30 mm in diam.; male flowers with 2 tepals, female with 5. Flowering time Dec.-Mar.
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