Leaf-lamina 3·5–7 × 2·5–5·5 cm., ovate to very broadly ovate or subcircular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, margin crenate-serrate, cordate and 7–9-nerved at the base, sparingly hairy with simple appressed-setulose hairs above, scabrous or scaberulous below with mostly stellate hairs; petiole up to 1·5 cm. long, stellate-pubescent; stipules up to 0·8 cm. long, linear-lanceolate, setulose.
Inflorescences at the nodes of the creeping stems or on erect flowering branches with reduced leaves up to 1·5 cm. long; cymes 2–3 per node; peduncles of cymes up to 5 mm. long, sparsely pubescent; pedicels similar, 2–3 together, c. 5 mm. long; bracts up to 2·5 mm. long, forming a small involucre, lanceolate, setulose at least on the margins.
Sepals c. 9 mm. long, ciliate at the base, linear, glabrous in the middle, setulose with simple or bifurcate hairs in the upper half; subapical horn up to 0·5 mm. long, usually with a single apical bristle.
Fruit 10 mm. in diam. including the aculei, pink, glabrous; aculei short, 1·5 mm. long with a single terminal seta or sometimes 2–3 setae.
Prostrate perennial with a woody rootstock; stems up to 1 m. long, stellate-pubescent.
Petals yellow, almost as long as the sepals, obovate-oblong, ciliate at the base.
Androgynophore 0·5 mm. tall, glands orbicular; annulus with a ciliate margin.
Ovary globose, setulose, 4-locular.
Stamens 10, as long as the petals.