A suberect or sprawling herb, the young parts woolly but later glabrescent except for the sheaths and axils. Stems with long internodes, woody only at the base. Leaves scattered, petiolate: petioles 2-3.5 cm long: blades narrow cuneate-obovate, 3-4 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, acutely toothed or lobed at the tip, 3-veined, somewhat reticulate when dry. Umbels solitary, with 3, 4 or 5 rays up to 1 cm long. Petals glabrous, white, rather large. Fruit rounded, 4 mm diam., 1 1/2 times as long as the bracts: furrows distinctly wrinkled. Fruit on a straight ray 1-2 cm long.
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