Erect, much-branched, non-aromatic shrub, up to 2 m high and 1 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous when young but soon becoming woody, sparsely to densely pubescent to villous and interspersed with glandular hairs, green but becoming brownish with age. Leaves villous or strigose and always beset with glandular hairs, green to greyish-green; lamina circular, reniform or triangular in outline, with or without shallow angular incisions, conspicuously veined abaxially, flat to hood-shaped at base, base reniform, cordate or cuneate, apex obtuse to acute, margin irregularly denticulate, often entire in proximal 1\4 of lamina, (20-)40-55(-110) x (20-)50-90(-180) mm; petiole (8-)20-55 (-90) mm long; stipules ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, densely pilose, 5-10 x 3-7 mm. Inflorescence: flowering branches sometimes profusely branched, with normal and smaller foliar leaves; peduncles 20-70 mm long, pubescent or pilose and always beset with glandular hairs; in-volucral bracts ovate to broadly ovate, acute, sparsely pilose to villous, 5-9 x 2-4 mm; pseudo-umbels with (1-)3-9(-13) flowers each. Pedicel 2-11 mm long, villous. Hypanthium 5-12 mm long. Sepals elliptic to narrowly elliptic, villous, green to reddish-brown, 12-20 x 2-6 mm. Petals pale pink to dark pinkish-purple, rarely white; posterior two spathulate to obovate, apices obtuse to emarginate, with dark purple streaks and a reddish-purple tinge at the bases, widening to reddish-purple patches, reflexed at less than 90°, 15-32 x 6-17 mm; anterior three spathulate to obovate to elliptic, with reddish-purple markings, slightly reflexed, 15-28 x 6-12 mm.
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Shrub to 2 m. Leaves ± round, ± 70 mm diam. Flowers to 13, ± 4 cm diam., pinkish purple, with wide and overlapping petals; hypanthium 5-12 mm long, slightly longer than pedicel.
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