Sparsely branched, aromatic shrub. Stems rather woody, erect, bark peeling off in paper-like strips. Leaves simple, membranous, pubescent; lamina reniform to cordiform, shallowly 3-5-lobed, margin coarsely dentate; petiole as long as or longer than lamina, persistent but not spinescent; stipules persistent but not spinescent. Pseudo-umbels 2-6-flowered. Pedicel shorter and much thinner than hypanthium. Petals 5, almost equal in size and shape, straight and almost parallel so that flower remains partially closed, white, light greenish, pinkish or purplish with fine reddish lines. Fertile stamens 7.
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