Perennial herb, stems up to 45 cm long, 2 mm diam., many from the crown, weak, straggling, either bare below or with the remains of stipules, leafy towards the tips, thinly pilose, hairs retrorse, but surface often almost obscured by the overlapping stipules. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-acuminate. Leaves with petioles 50-200 mm long, pilose, hairs retrorse, appressed, blade 20-55 mm diam., suborbicular in outline, digitately 5-lobed to at least 3\4 the depth of the radius, lobes rhomboid-obovate in outline, themselves lobed, apex ± obtuse, upper surface thinly pilose, hairs appressed, white intermingling hairs between the veins below, longer, coarser spreading hairs over the veins. Peduncles terminal, solitary 1-or 2-flowered, pilose, hairs reflexed. Pedicels ±20-50 mm long, with short ± reflexed hairs and longer spreading gland-tipped hairs. Sepals ±6 x 2.5 mm excluding the mucro, with short fine appressed pubescence as well as long spreading often gland-tipped hairs. Petals ±12-14 x 5-7 mm, obovate, shallowly notched, pink, veined red. Rostrum with spreading eglandular hairs and an occasional long gland-tipped hair.
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