Herbaceous perennial to 15 cm, rusty green, pubescent with stellate hairs and minute glandular hairs; prickles 5–8 mm long, scattered on stems, petioles, leaf-surfaces, peduncles and calyx. Leaves ovate; lamina 30–45 mm long, 15–35 mm wide, sometimes larger, concolorous, shallowly lobed; lobe margins rounded or undulate; petiole 15–45 mm long. Inflorescence 2–7–flowered; peduncle 10 mm long; rachis 2–6 cm long; pedicels 10–25 mm long. Calyx 5–9 mm long; lobes broadly lanceolate, 3–6 mm long. Corolla broadly stellate, 25–35 mm diam., purple. Anthers 4–5 mm long. Berry unknown.