Erect to procumbent subshrub, branched from the base, up to 0.3 m high. Stems covered with remnants of petioles, glabrous, purplish-green but turning brownish with age. Leaves crowded; lamina trilobate to trifoliolate, strigose with hairs distally directed, ovate to cordiform, base obtuse to cordate, 10-30 x 10-25 mm; segments/pinnae usually almost linear and irregularly incised, terminal one often pinnately incised, apices acute, margins often reddish, entire; petiole adaxially grooved and hirtellous, much longer than lamina, 15-100 mm long; stipules free, linear-triangular, hirtellous, 4-6 x ±1 mm. Inflorescence: Flowering branch with smaller foliar leaves, branched, bearing several reduced 1-3-flowered pseudo-umbels; peduncle 10-25 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel 3-10 mm long, hirtellous. Hypanthium 2-8 mm long, hirtellous. Sepals 5, narrowly ovate to elliptic, acuminate, abaxially pilose, reddish-green, ±6 x 1.5 mm. Petals 5, white to pink; posterior two obovate with darker-coloured claws, and a dark red warty area at base of each, 7-10 x 4-5 mm; anterior three narrowly obovate with short darker-coloured claws, 8-10 x 2-3 mm. Stamens 10, 5 fertile (4 long, 1 short), 5 staminodes of different lengths, staminal column 1-2 mm long, pollen yellow. Ovary ovate, 5-lobed, pilose; style dark red; stigmas 5, dark red. Mericarps: bases 5-6 mm long; tails 20-25 mm long.
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