Decumbent to procumbent, much-branched subshrub, up to 0.5 m high and 1 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous, bases of older stems somewhat woody, glabrescent to pubescent to villous to hirsute and with glandular hairs in between, green and becoming greyish with age. Leaves: lamina indumentum variable as on stems, green but sometimes flushed with red, narrowly cordiform in outline, entire to pinnatilobate to bipinnatisect with narrow segments, base of lamina cordate, apices of segments obtuse to acute and often reddish, margins irregularly incised, (35-)50(-100) x (25-)40(-60) mm; petiole indumentum as on stems, (15-)50(-120) mm long; stipules ovate to cordate and sometimes cuspidate, ±7 x 6 mm. Inflorescence: peduncles (25-)70(-100) mm long, hirtellous to hirsute and densely interspersed with glandular hairs; involucral bracts lanceolate, hirtellous, ±8 x 2 mm; pseudo-umbels with 2-6 flowers each. Pedicel 1-3 mm long. Hypanthium 8-55 mm long, indumentum as on peduncle. Sepals lanceolate, hirsute and with many glandular hairs; green but prominently raised veins reddish. Petals 4 or 5, white to yellowish to pink to mauve or pinkish-yellow; posterior two obovate or oblanceolate with narrow claws, with red or dark purple streaks, reflexed at less than 90°, 25-40 x 8-12 mm long; anterior two/three spathulate to narrowly lanceolate, slightly reflexed, ±20 x 4 mm. Fertile stamens 7(4 long, 1 medium, 2 short), staminal column ±5 mm long, pollen orange. Mericarps: bases ±5 mm long; tails ±30 mm long.
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Procumbent shrublet. Leaves pinnatisect, ± 4 x 3 cm. Flowers to 6, either ± 30 mm diam. and white to pale pink with red veins or ± 60 mm diam. and yellow with pinkish veins, on well-developed peduncles at ends of branches, subsessile; hypanthium 30-55 mm long.
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