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A herb. It grows 60 cm tall. It has a stout rootstock. The stems are stout and hairy. The leaves have 5 leaflets spread out like fingers on a hand. The leaf stalk is 10 cm long. The leaflets are 10 cm long by 4 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are in groups at the top of the plant. The petals are red at the base and greenish above.
Cymes ± terminal; peduncle c. 4 cm. long, pubescent and with dense capitate-glandular hairs; pedicels c. 1·5 mm. long, indumentum as for peduncles; bracts and bracteoles c. 1·5 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, pubescent and glandular at the margins.
Erect herb c. 0·6 m. tall with stout rootstock; stems stout, shortly and densely pubescent or tomentose and with very dense purplish glandular-capitate hairs.
Flower-bud c. 2·5 mm. long, constricted just above the middle, puberulous and with very dense capitate-glandular hairs at the apex.
Calyx 0·5 mm. long, ± 4-toothed, pubescent and with capitate-glandular hairs.
Ovary pubescent; style 0·75 mm. long, minutely 2-fid at the apex.
Petals red at base, greenish-red above.
Ripe fruits not known.