Herbs, to 1.5 m tall, trailing or suberect, most parts simple-pubescent and aculeate, prickles with prominent basal tubercles, retrorsely reflexed, straight. Stipules lanceolate, 5-14 × 2-3 mm, margins setose; petiole 2-8 cm, abaxially aculeate, adaxially densely pubescent; leaf blade broadly ovate or palmately 3-5(-7)-lobed, 2.5-10 × 3-8 cm, both surfaces with tubercle-based prickly hairs on veins. Flowers solitary, axillary. Pedicel 1.5-7 cm. Epicalyx lobes 8-12, 1-2 cm long overall, inner branch erect, linear-lanceolate, outer branch oblong-ovate, slightly shorter. Calyx deeply divided, shorter than epicalyx, lobes adaxially densely white puberulent. Corolla yellow with purple center, 5-10 cm wide. Capsule ovoid, ca. 1.5 cm, enclosed in enlarged calyx, densely hairy. Seeds brownish, ± reniform, 4-5 mm, sparsely white scaly.
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A herb or shrub. It grows 1.5 m tall. It can be trailing. It has hairs and prickles. The leaves are broadly oval or with 3-5 lobes spread out like fingers on a hand. The leaves are 3-10 cm long by 3-8 cm wide. The flowers occur singly in the axils of leaves. They are yellow with a purple centre. The fruit is an oval capsule 1.5 cm across.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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