An erect, much-branched, non-aromatic to aromatic shrub, up to 1 m high and 0.75 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous when young but soon becoming woody, hirtellous and with a few long soft hairs and glandular hairs interspersed, green but becoming greyish-brown with age. Leaves hirtellous and with long hairs and many glandular hairs interspersed, green; lamina cordiform in outline, shallowly 3-(5-8)-palmatilobate to palmatipartite, conspicuously veined, base cordate, apices of lobes obtuse, margin coarsely dentate, (15-)35(-60) x (20-)40(-70) mm; petiole (20-)50(-80) mm long; stipules cordiform to triangular, apiculate to cuspidate, 4-8 x 4-6 mm. Inflorescence: flowering branches with normal and smaller foliar leaves, peduncles 10-70 mm long, hirtellous to hirsute and densely interspersed with glandular hairs; involucral bracts ovate to narrowly ovate, cuspidate, indumentum as on peduncles, 4-8 x 4-5 mm; pseudo-umbels with 2-9 flowers each. Pedicel 8-20 mm long, relatively thin, indumentum as on peduncles. Hypanthium 3-8 mm long, prominently thickened at the base. Sepals 5, lanceolate, cuspidate, indumentum abaxially as on peduncles, green, ±12 x 2-4 mm. Petals 5, white to pale pink; posterior two spathulate to obovate, apices obtuse, with dark red markings, reflexed at more than 90°, ±20 x 8 mm; anterior three narrowly spathulate with short claws, reflexed at less than 90°, ±18 x 2-3 mm.
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