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A shrub. It grows 2-3 m high. The leaves are hairy. They are round and 8 cm across. There can be 3-5 small lobes. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are large and yellow with a purple or red centre. They are 7 cm across. The fruit is an oval capsule with bristles. The seeds are smooth and almost kidney shaped.
Leaf-lamina up to 8 × 8 cm., suborbicular in outline, obscurely or distinctly 3–5-lobed, setose-pilosulose on both surfaces, especially on the nerves, apex acute, margin crenate-serrate, base cordate or subcordate; petiole up to 7 cm. long ; stipules 4–5 mm. long, filiform.
Stiffly hairy shrub to 3 m, with stiffly erect branches. Leaves long-petiolate, shallowly 3-5 palmate, toothed. Flowers on short pedicels in upper axils, large, yellow with purple eye, epicalyx of 5 broad lobes, staminal tube 30 mm long; seeds glabrous.
Flowers up to 7 cm. in diam., yellow with purple centre, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves and forming racemes at the apices of the stems; peduncle up to 15 mm. long, stellate-setose, articulated near the base.
Epicalyx of 5 bracts, pubescent; bracts up to 25 × 9 mm., ovate-lanceolate to narrowly triangular, acute, joined for c. 4–5 mm. at the base.
Calyx shorter than or equalling the epicalyx, pubescent; lobes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, joined to nearly half-way.
Shrub or perennial herb up to 2–3 m. tall; stems sparsely to very densely setose.
Staminal tube 30 mm. long; free parts of filaments 2–3 mm. long.
Capsule 20 × 12 mm., ellipsoid, densely stellate-setose.
Petals up to 7 × 6 cm., obovate, pubescent.
Seeds 3 × 2·5 mm., subreniform, glabrous.
Style-branches 4 mm. long, pubescent.
