Shrubs, to 3(–5) m, branches usually stout, indument white to tawny, dense (shaggy-tomentose), stellate hairs sessile or stalked, 10–30-armed, arms 0.2–1.5 mm. Leaf blades ± round, 3-, 5-, or 7-lobed, 5–11(–20) cm, thick, surfaces: adaxial tawny and densely stellate-hairy (velvety to scabrous-tomentose), basal lobes overlapping. Inflorescences spicate to racemose, flower clusters usually short-pedunculate, glomerate; involucellar bractlets subulate, 1.5–4 × to 1 mm, usually less than 1/2 calyx length. Flowers: calyx campanulate, 5–9 mm, lobes triangular to ovate, 3–5 × 1.8–3.2(–4) mm, slightly longer than wide, slightly longer than tube, apex acute to short-mucronate, densely stellate-hairy, hairs 10–30-armed; petals mauve, to 1.5 cm. Mericarps 2–3 mm. 2n = 34.
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