Planta suffrutescens, sparse ramosa, ramis plus minusve scanden tibus, usque 1-25 m. alta. Caules teretes, 5-7 mm. crassi, carnosulo-sublignosi, pubescentes. Folia orbiculata vel reniformi-orbiculata, basi cordata, 5-lobata, lobis crenatis vel crenato-dentatis, usque 5 cm. longa, 4-7.5 cm. lata, vix carnosula, zonata, utrinque indumento molli satis induta; stipulae latae vel latissime ovatae, 11-18 mm. longae, 9-13 mm. latae, abrupte acuminatae, mox membranaceae. Pedunculi 8-20 cm. longi, pubescentes, pilis glandulosis longis instructi, usque 12-flori; bracteae plerumque 6, stipulis similes sed multo minores. Flores pedicellati, pedicellis 3.5-5.5 cm. longis, calycis calcare tenui 3.3-4.7 cm. longo eis adnato, pilis brevibus glandulosis et perpaucis longioribus eglandulosis ornatis. Sepala oblongo-linearia, 6-8 mm. longa, circiter 1-5 mm. lata, apice obtusa vel breviter apiculata, extra pilosa. Petala subaequalia, obovata vel obovato-cuneata, apice rotundata, 3 inferiora usque 20 mm. longa, 10 mm. lata, extra rosea dilutissima, intus salmoneo-rosea, 2 superiora saturatius colorata. Stamina fertilia 7, 5 antesepala calyci fere aequilonga, 2 posteriora, antepetala, breviora. Ovarium dense villosum. Fructus fere 3 cm. longus, rostro pilis patulis albidis hirsuto.
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Sprawling, slender-stemmed shrub, up to 0.6 m high; stem fleshy, pubescent. Leaves petiolate, 5-lobed, reniform, base cordate, margins crenate; blades strongly zoned, each with a central dark brown blotch; petioles long. Inflorescences of 15-flowered pseudo-umbels. Petals obovate, pale salmon-pink flowers.
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