Habit apparently an erect straggling shrub to 40 cm, new shoots visibly, densely hairy. Leaves seen possibly intermediate stage foliage, mainly clustering, sessile, stem-clasping, obovate, 12–15 mm long, 7 mm wide, apically trilobed. Inflorescence seen is a solitary, sessile flower, terminal on short shoots in upper branches, peduncles less than 10 mm long. Sepals 3.5 mm long, green-purple, linear but wider in lower half, very hairy; petals 6–1 long, clawed, free, apically recurving, cream with punctuated maroon venation. Stamens free, clustering by height opposite petal break; filaments twice as wide in lower half; anthers much smaller than filaments, sagittate, white with a blue stipe; pollen fawn or yellow. Pistil with wide receptacle and prominent basal nectary, ovary cylindrical, glabrous?; style slender, as long as ovary and curving; female phase flowers not seen. Fruit not seen. Flowering October (spring).
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