Decumbent to procumbent, much-branched subshrub, up to 0.3 m high and 0.4 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous, bases of older stems somewhat woody, hirsute and with glandular hairs interspersed, green but becoming reddish-brown with age. Leaves: lamina soft to the touch, sericeous and with glandular hairs interspersed, greyish-green, narrowly cordiform in outline, trilobate to trisect to trifoliolate with the terminal segment/pinna much larger and variously incised, base cordate, apices of segments/pinnae obtuse, margins crenate, (15-)20(-30) x (13-)20(-25) mm; petiole indumentum as on stems, (17-)35(-75) mm long; stipules ovate to triangular, cuspidate, indumentum as on lamina, ±4 x 5 mm. Inflorescence: peduncles (30-)55(-60) mm long, indumentum as on stems; involucral bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate, cuspidate, indumentum as on lamina, margin fimbriate, ±4x2 mm; pseudo-umbels with 1-4 flowers each. Pedicel ±1-1.5 mm long. Hypanthium 5-8 mm long, sparsely hirsute but with many glandular hairs. Sepals lanceolate, cuspidate, abaxially hirtellous and with many glandular hairs, green but prominently raised veins often reddish. Petals 4, white to pink (R.H.S. 75B); posterior two asymmetric-obovate with narrow claws, with dark red markings, reflexed at less than 90°, ±20 x 7 mm; anterior two spathulate, with a pink blotch, slightly reflexed, ±14 x 2 mm. Fertile stamens 5(2 long, 2 medium, 1 short), staminal column ±5 mm long, pollen orange. Mericarps: bases ±6 mm long; tails ±31 mm long.
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Subshrub, scrambler, 0.1-0.3 m high; branches procumbent, villous. Leaves cordiform, 30 x 25 mm, 3-lobed, silky, tending to grey, margins crenulate; petioles very long, villous. Inflorescences of 1-4-flowered pseudo-umbels. Petals 4, white to pale pink; posterior 2 large, veins dark red; anterior 2 small with broad, mauve strips. Flowering time all year.
Procumbent shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves simple or rarely 3-foliolate, cordate with margins variously lobed, silvery velvety, ± 2 cm diam. Flowers to 4 on axillary peduncles, ± 15 mm diam., white to pink, petals 4, upper larger than lower, subsessile; hypanthium 5-8 mm long, much longer than pedicel.
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