Low, erect shrub 36–60 cm tall; stems 4–6 mm thick, completely covered in long, subadpressed ferruginous hairs.. Basal leaves rounded in outline, 4–7.5(–11.5) cm long, 5.5–12.5(–18) cm wide, deeply pedatifid, divided 9/10 of the way into 3–5 oblanceolate leaf-segments, each 3–6(–10) cm long, 1.5–3(–4.2) cm wide, tip acute to acuminate, margin serrate; thickly softly stellate-hairy above, thickly pubescent beneath; upper leaves becoming shallowly 3-lobed, then entire and ovate, reducing to 3 mm long, 2 mm wide below the terminal inflorescences; petiole 1.6–4.6 cm long, 2 mm thick, indumentum as the stem in basal leaves, upper leaves subsessile; stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, 6–8 mm long, 1 mm wide.. Inflorescences terminal on short branches at the shoot tip, cymes at tightly clustered nodes, (1–)3-flowered; peduncles 3–5 mm long; bracts 1–2, resembling the stipules; pedicels 2.5 mm long.. Sepals linear-oblong, 1–1.4 cm long, 0.2–0.3 cm wide, thickly covered in long hairs outside, spur 4–5 mm long.. Petals spathulate, 12 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, the claw as long as the blade, with a dense tuft of hairs at the margins 1 mm from the base; stamens 30–42; ovary covered inlong simple hairs.. Fruit oblate, 17 mm long, 22 mm wide, covered in more than a hundred blunt, short, stout, inflexible bristles 2 mm long, each covered with interlocking tufts of long golden hairs.. Fig. 11/12–13 (p. 71).
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