Perennial, erect, herbaceous subshrub, up to 0.4 m high and 0.3 m in diameter. Stems smooth, herbaceous except woody base of main stem, glabrous, green to glaucous but becoming brownish with age. Leaves simple, glabrous, green to glaucous; lamina cordiform, 3-5-palmatilobate to 3-5-palmatifid, often conspicuously zoned, 15-55 x 18-60 mm, apex obtuse, base cordately incised, margin irregularly dentate and with many short, rigid hairs; petiole much longer than lamina, 25-80 mm long; stipules triangular, 5-12 x 4-10 mm. Inflorescence: flowering branch with normal but smaller, petiolate foliar leaves, bearing several reduced pseudo-umbels of 2-5 flowers each; peduncle glabrous, 22-55 mm long. Pedicel 8-10 mm long, sparsely hirsute with a few glandular hairs interspersed. Hypanthium 4-8 mm long, hirsute with glandular hairs interspersed. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ±7.0 x 2.5 mm, abaxial indumentum as on hypanthium. Petals 5, pink; posterior two with purplish markings, spathulate, ±15 x 5 mm, reflexed at ±90°; anterior three narrowly spathulate with short and narrow claws, with a purplish line near base, ±12 x 3 mm, gradually recurved. Stamens 10: 7 fertile and 3 staminodes, bases of filaments fused; pollen yellow. Ovary ovoid, 5-lobed, densely pilose; style purplish; stigma with 5 recurved branches, purplish. Fruit not seen.
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Shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves variously incised, almost round, leathery, glaucous, often with a reddish zonal marking, ± 4 cm diam. Flowers 2 or 3 on axillary peduncles, ± 20 mm diam., purple; hypanthium 4-8 mm long, slightly shorter than pedicel.
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