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Female flowers: pedicels up to 4 mm long; calyx 3–4.5 mm long, calyx lobes 2.5–4 × 1 mm, linear or lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, entire, eglandular; petals 5–6 × 1.5 mm, linear, subacute or obtuse, yellowish; disk 2.5 mm in diameter, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes transversely oblong, 1 mm wide, flattened, retuse; ovary c. 2.5 × 2 mm, 3-lobed to ellipsoid; styles 2 mm long, united at the base, erect, stigmas bifid.
Leaf blades (2)4–21 × (1)2–12 cm, 3–5(7)-palmatipartite to subpinnatipartite, rarely some also simple and ovate or elliptic, cuneate or attenuate at the base, membranaceous; the lobes up to 12 × 3 cm, usually narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex, entire or rarely irregularly pinnately lobulate or repand-dentate and hyaline on the margins; lateral nerves of the median lobe often in c. 20 pairs.
Seeds 9 × 5.5 × 4 mm, compressed oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, shiny, dark brown, with a multifid fimbriate caruncle 2 × 4.5 mm, blackish at the base shading through brown and buff to whitish.
Inflorescences 7–10(24) cm long, terminal, with a peduncle up to 7 cm long; bracts up to c. 5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, entire or subentire.
A slightly succulent, glabrous, glaucous, shrubby forb-like perennial herb up to 50 cm high; stems arising from a rootstock, densely leafy.
Stipules 0.5–1 mm long, simple, filiform-subulate, or bifid, eglandular, hyaline, soon falling, or absent.
Fruit c. 10–12 × 8–9(10) mm, 3-lobed to ellipsoid, shallowly tuberculate-rugulose.
Petioles up to 1.2 cm long, or leaves sessile.
Young stems reddish.
