Perennial herb, stems up to 60 cm long, ±3 mm diam., weak, decumbent or ascending, forming loose clumps or mats, bare below or with the remains of stipules, leafy upwards, pilose with fine white retrorse hairs and often long fine spreading ones as well. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-acuminate. Leaves on petioles up to 150 mm long, diminishing in length upwards, uppermost petioles ±10-20 mm long, pilose with long fine white ± spreading hairs; blade ±20-50 mm in diam., suborbicular in outline, digitately 5(-7)-lobed ±1\2-2\3 the depth of the radius, lobes obovate in outline, themselves lobed, firm-textured, markedly discolorous, thinly appressed pubescent above or nearly glabrous, white-felted below. Peduncles terminal and opposite the upper 'leaves, sometimes forming almost leafless compound cymes, thinly glandular-pilose, hairs spreading or ± reflexed; ultimate peduncles mostly 2-flowered. Pedicels mostly 25-65 mm long, hairy as the peduncles. Sepals 7.5-11 x 3.5 mm excluding the mucro, silvery appressed pubescent, some long fine spreading hairs as well, these rarely gland-tipped. Petals 15-20 x 11-16 mm, obovate, shallowly notched, pale to dark purplish-pink, veins darker, white towards base. Rostrum with fine ± spreading pubescence, hairs very rarely gland-tipped.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high; stems weak, decumbent, mat-forming; pilose with fine, white, retrorse hairs. Leaves with lamina 20-50 mm in diam., suborbicular, digitately 5-7-lobed to 2/3 depth of radius; lobes obovate in outline, themselves lobed, firm-textured, glossy green above, white-felted below; petioles up to 150 mm long. Inflorescences with peduncles terminal and opposite upper leaves, of mostly 2-flowered, compound cymes; pedicels up to 65 mm long; scarcely glandular pilose. Flowering time Nov.-Feb.
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