Erect to decumbent, branched subshrub, up to 0.5 m high and 0.75 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous, bases of older stems woody, pubescent to villous to hirsute and with glandular hairs in between, green but soon becoming brownish or reddish with age. Leaves: lamina glabrous to pubescent to sparsely hirsute and with glandular hairs in between, green, ovate to cordiform in outline, pinnatifid to bipinnatisect, apices of segments obtuse to acute, (20-)45(-80) x (10-)25(-50) mm; petiole indumentum as on lamina, (10-)50(-115) mm long; stipules ovate, sometimes acuminate, indumentum as on lamina, ±7 x 5 mm. Inflorescence: peduncles (40-)80(-120) mm long, pubescent to villous to hirsute and with glandular hairs in between; involucral bracts 5-6, ovate to lanceolate, indumentum as on peduncles, ±7 x 3 mm; pseudo-umbels with 2-6 flowers each. Pedicel 1-2 mm long. Hypanthium 4-10 mm long, glabrous to hirsute but always with many glandular hairs. Sepals lanceolate, indumentum abaxially as on hypanthium, green to brownish-green but prominently raised veins reddish. Petals 4 or 5, white, pink, lilac to pinkish-purple; posterior two asymmetric-obovate with narrow claws, with dark reddish or purple markings, reflexed at ±90°, 15-25 x 8-12 mm; anterior two/three spathulate with long claws, slightly reflexed, ±18-15 x 2-4 mm. Fertile stamens 5 or 7 [4 long, 1 medium, (2 short)], staminal column 2-3 mm long, pollen orange. Mericarps: bases 5-7 mm long; tails 35-45 mm long.
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Sprawling shrublet, ± 300 mm tall. Leaves bipinnatisect, segments linear to ribbon-shaped, ± 50 x 30 mm. Flowers up to 5 per tight cluster, subsessile, 20-25 mm diam., petals 4 or 5, white to pink or pinkish purple, upper 2 markedly wider, hypanthium 4-10 mm long.
Sprawling shrublet ± 30 cm. Leaves bipinnatisect, segments linear to ribbon-shaped, ± 5 x 3 cm. Flowers to 5, 20-25 mm diam., white to pink or pinkish purple, upper 2 petals markedly wider, subsessile; hypanthium 4-10 mm long.
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