Woody perennial, with thin zigzagged branches, up to 2 m tall, from a massive, partly exposed tuberous base. Leaves with persistent rigid stipules, blade round and deeply 3-5-lobed, leathery, up to 30 mm diam. Flowers 1 or 2 at branch tips, shortly pedicellate, 15-50 mm diam., petals 4, cream-coloured, upper 2 much larger, with purplish veins, hypanthium 10-40 mm long.
Woody perennial with thin branches to 2 m from a massive, partly exposed, tuberous base. Leaves round and deeply 3-5-lobed, leathery, to 3 cm diam. Flowers 1 or 2, 15-50 mm diam., cream-coloured to purple, petals 4, upper much larger; hypanthium 10-40 mm long, much longer than pedicel.