Shrub to 0.6 m high, spreading, suckering, tomentose and sometimes sparsely hirsute with short and long simple hairs and glandular hairs, the glands usually peltate and cream-coloured. Leaves sessile or petiolate, the lamina from oblong to ovate, obovate or cuneate in outline, deeply divided or lobed, to pinnatifid, obtuse, 1–3.5 cm long, 0.4–2 cm wide, tomentose and hirsute and with glandular hairs. Pedicels 3–3.5 mm long. Sepals 1–2 mm long. Petals broadly spathulate to orbicular, 3–4 mm long including claw; claw 0.5–1 mm long. Stamens 2–4 mm long. Cocci 2.5–3.5 mm long, chartaceous, muricate, pubescent, sometimes densely so, and with long glandular hairs.