Erect to decumbent, aromatic subshrub with small root tubers. Stems herbaceous, covered with persistent petioles and stipules, internodes relatively long. Leaves subsucculent, pilose and with glandular hairs interspersed; lamina cordiform, 3-5-palmatilo-bate to palmatifid; petiole more or less the same length as lamina, persistent; stipules membranous, persistent. Pseudo-umbels 3-6-flowered. Pedicel very short (1-2 mm) and much shorter than hypanthium (15-20 mm). Petals 5, white to cream; posterior two sometimes with carmine feather-like markings and larger than anterior three. Fertile stamens 5.