Sprawling herb, well branched, evergreen, unarmed, up to 400 mm tall with trailing branches up to 2.5 m long, microscopically pubescent with equal glandular and non-glandular hairs with shorter glandular hairs interspersed. Stems smooth, somewhat succulent, green but turning brown with age; with alternate sections of crowded and well spaced leaves; flower-bearing branches not differentiated. Leaves simple; lamina orbicular in outline, deeply 5-lobed, base cordately incised, apices of lobes rounded, margins of lobes obtusely dentate, 45-90 x 45-105 mm, membranous, bright green with or without a purple zonal marking; petiole 30-45(-115) mm long, deciduous; stipules broadly ovate, 3-7 x 4-8 mm, membranous, persistent for at least some time after shedding of petiole. Inflorescence a simple pseudo-umbel of 6-8(-13) conspicuously irregular flowers borne on a stout unbranched peduncle up to 250 mm long. Pedicel shorter than hypanthium: 2-10(-13) mm long. Hypanthium 10-20 mm long, often with strong reddish tinge directly below sepals. Sepals linear, uniformly green or with red longitudinal lines, 7-10 x 1-3 mm. Petals 4 or 5, white or pale cream-coloured with or without a few pale pink linear markings near base; posterior two spathulate, 16-22 x 4-6(-7) mm, sharply reflexed by 90° between claw and limb; anterior two or three narrowly obovoid, 12-16 x 3-4 mm, almost straight or slightly and gradually recurved. Stamens 10, 7 fertile and of nearly equal length: 7-16 mm long, well produced and slightly curved upwards; staminodes much shorter; anthers ±2.5 mm long; pollen orange. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 4-5 mm long and 1.5 mm in diameter, densely sericeous with apically directed trichomes, pale green; style 5-8 mm long, pale green; stigma 5-branched, on same plane as anthers, pale green. Mericarp base ±7 mm long, tail plumose and 32-34 mm long.
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