Stems terete, densely woolly-hairy. Leaves pungent, densely woolly-hairy, with obscurely glandular or eglandular bristles; stipules pectinate, 2–5 × 3–8 mm, with obscurely glandular or eglandular bristles or hairs; petiole with obscurely glandular or eglandular bristles or hairs; blade roughly symmetric, 3–6 × 2–7 cm, deeply (3–)5–7(–9)-lobed, middle lobe longer than lateral lobes, margins entire or serrate; abaxial fine veins weakly to moderately raised but obscured by pubescence, abaxial nectaries absent. Floral bracts pinnatifid, 16–28 × 14–28 mm, margins entire or dentate, with obscurely glandular or eglandular bristles or hairs. Flowers: floral tube cuplike, 3–5 mm deep; sepals white, 13–23 × 5–9 mm; petals white, 14–20 × 5–8 mm; corona filament whorls 5–6, outer 2 whorls purple to magenta basally, white medially, pale pink apically, linear, terete, 10–17 mm. Berries green to pale yellow-green, ovoid, 2–3 × 15–25 mm.