Perennial herb. Stems trailing. Leaves with blade ovate, narrowly ovate or oblong, gradually tapering towards apex, up to 300 x 120 mm, base rounded to shallowly cordate, margin densely yellow-ciliate, both surfaces densely covered with silvery white hairs. Flowers: several together in dense head; calyx lobes narrowly ovate, 20-35 mm long, acuminate-cuspidate; corolla 50-70(-90) mm long, rose-magenta; Oct.-Feb. Fruit a globose capsule, ± 10 mm in diameter, enclosed by calyx; seeds glabrous.
A herb. It has thick tubers. It is very large. It can be 1 m long by 30 cm wide. It has several trailing annual stems. These can be 2 m long. The young parts are densely hairy. The leaf blade is 13 cm long by 7.5 cm wide. It can be rounded or shallowly heart shaped at the base. There are silvery hairs on both surfaces. The leaves point upwards. The flowers occur as several together almost in a head. The fruit capsule is round. The seeds are black.
Trailing perennial herb. Leaf lamina ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded to shallowly cordate at base, densely covered on both surfaces with silvery white hairs, densely yellow-ciliate on margin. Flowers several together in dense head. Sepals lanceolate, 20-35 mm long, acuminate-cuspidate. Corolla 50-70(-90) mm long. Flowers rose-magenta.