Many-stemmed, clump-forming, perennial herb, up to 0.2 m high. Leaves petiolate, sparsely pubescent with appressed retrorse hairs; lamina up to 110 mm in diam., digitately 5-lobed almost to base; lobes elliptic in outline, lobed and toothed, ultimate segment ± narrowly deltoid. Inflorescence a large, loosely-branched cyme terminating each stem; peduncles mostly 2-flowered. Sepals 4.5-7.5 x 2.0-2.5 mm excluding mucro, gland-tipped hairs spreading. Petals 12-15 x 7-11 mm, obovate, entire, pink with darker veins. Flowering time Oct.-Feb.