An erect to decumbent, evergreen, aromatic subshrub, up to 0.4 m high when in flower and 0.15 m in diameter. Stems covered by remains of stipules, subsucculent, young stems with glandular hairs and green, becoming glabrous and brown with age. Leaves simple, prominently veined, abaxially pilose interspersed with long glandular hairs, adaxially with long and short glandular hairs, green, apple-mint scented, much larger on main stem than on flowering branches; lamina cordiform, 5-7-palmitifid, base cordate, apices of lobes acute to obtuse, margins dentate, (42-)75(-105) x (45-)75(-115) mm; petiole (45-)85(-140) mm long, with long and short glandular hairs interspersed with a few short soft hairs; stipules triangular to bidentate, 4-5 x 2-4 mm, adaxially as on petiole, abaxially pilose interspersed with long glandular hairs, persistent. Inflorescence aflowering branch with several pseudo-umbels; peduncle unbranched, 25-55 mm long, terminating in a pseudo-umbel of 4-9(15) flowers each. Involucral bracts ovate, acute, membranous, 3-1 mm x 2-3 mm, pilose with short soft hairs. Pedicel 3-12 mm long, indumentum as on petiole. Hypanthium prominently thickened at base, 9-20 mm long, with long and short glandular hairs. Sepals 5, lanceolate to ovate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially pilose, apple-green with white margin, 5-7 x 1.5-3 mm. Petals white; posterior two close together, sometimes with carmine markings, oblanceolate to spatulate, apices retuse, 8-15 x 3-5 mm, terminally slightly recurved; anterior three obovate to oblanceolate with narrow claws, apices truncate, 8-14 x 4-5 mm, basally somewhat recurved. Fertile stamens 7 (4 long, 1 medium, 2 short), light green; anthers 1-1.5 mm long and 0.5-1 mm in diameter, pinkish orange; pollen orange; staminodes 3. Ovary ovoid, densely pilose, green; style 2-3 mm long; stigma with 5 recurved branches, white. Mericarps not seen.
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