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Prostrate or semiprostrate perennial herb. Leaves 3-5-lobed, cordate at base. Epicalyx of 7-9 bracts, filiform to very narrowly linear, not wider than 0.5 mm. Flowers yellow (rarely white) with reddish purple centre.
Flowers up to 8 cm. in diam., yellow (rarely white) with reddish-purple centre, solitary, axillary; peduncle up to 10 cm. long, with a somewhat glandular pubescence, articulated near the apex.
Prostrate or semiprostrate perennial herb; stems usually trailing along the ground, glandular-pubescent and with long weak or subsetose hairs.
Calyx 10–20 mm. long, densely pubescent, and stellate-setulose; lobes elongate-triangular, acute, joined at the base for up to 4–5 mm.
Petals 3–5 × 1·5–2·5 cm., narrowly obliquely obovate, pubescent outside where not overlapping, glabrous inside.
Capsule 12 mm. in diam., subglobose, densely stellate-pubescent; margins of valves setose.
Epicalyx of 7–9 bracts; bracts 2·5 mm. long, filiform to very narrowly linear.
Staminal tube 7–18 mm. long; free parts of filaments up to 0·5 mm. long.
Seeds 2 × 2 mm., subreniform, sparsely minutely lepidote.
Style-branches 2–5 mm. long.
