Decumbent to procumbent, much-branched subshrub, up to 1 m high and 1.5 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous, bases of older stems somewhat woody, sparsely strigose to strigose and with long straight hairs and glandular hairs in between, green but becoming brownish with age. Leaves: lamina glabrescent to strigose or densely strigose and with glandular hairs interspersed, green or greyish-green, cordiform or ovate in outline, pinnatilobate to pinnatisect with the basal segments sometimes irregularly incised, base of lamina truncate to cordate, apex acute, margins irregularly crenate-dentate, 10-)30(-40) x (5-)15(-35) mm; petiole indumentum as on lamina, (0-)12(-40) mm long; stipules asymmetric triangular, sometimes cuspidate, indumentum as on lamina, ±4 x 1.5 mm. Inflorescence: peduncles (10-)25(-70) mm long, sparsely hirsute to hirsute or strigose and with glandular hairs interspersed; involucral bracts 2, ovate, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, sometimes cuspidate, indumentum on lamina ±7 x 12 mm; reduced pseudo-umbels with 1(-2) flowers each. Pedicel 0.5-2 mm long. Hypanthium 10-50 mm long, sparsely hirsute to hirsute and with many glandular hairs. Sepals lanceolate, indumentum abaxially as on hypanthium, brownish-green but prominently raised veins of reddish colour. Petals 4(-5), cream, pale pink to pink or pinkish-purple; posterior two asymmetric-obovate with narrow claws, with dark reddish-purple markings, reflexed at less than 90°, ±25 x 12 mm; anterior two/three narrowly spathulate, with long claws, slightly reflexed, ±17 x 4 mm. Fertile stamens 7(4 long, 1 medium, 2 short), staminal column ±4 mm long, pollen yellow to orange. Mericarps: bases ±5 mm long; tails ±25 mm long.
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Sprawling shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves 1-or 2-pinnatilobed, ± 2 x 1.5 cm. Flowers 1, sometimes 2 on long, erect peduncles, 25-30 mm diam., white to pinkish purple, subsessile, petals 4 with upper much larger than lower; hypanthium 10-50 mm long, much longer than pedicel.
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