Shrubby or herbaceous, annual or perennial. Branches, petioles and pedicels stellate tomentose with or without simple spreading hairs. Leaves globular in outline, 2-5 cm long and broad, glabrescent above, margin hairy, nerves beneath with stellate pubescence, sometimes mixed with simple hairs, deeply cordate at base, palmately (3-) 5 (-7)-lobed; lobes oblong, obovate, oblong-elliptic or broadly ovate, entire, apiculate or obtuse at apex; stipules linear-lanceolate or obliquely ovate, 6-12 mm long, 1.5-5 mm broad; petiole 2-3.5 cm long. Pedicel 7-15 mm long. Epicalyx segments 1-2 cm long and broad, deeply cordate at base, 6-8 toothed or lobed at apex, 2-7 mm long, central one largest; teeth lanceolate. Calyx cup shaped, densely black dotted 7-10 mm long and broad, undulately 5-lobed or truncate. Corolla 4-6 cm across, yellow with crimson centre; petals 2.5-3.5 cm long, 3-4 cm broad, obovate. Staminal column 1 cm long, antheriferous in the upper half. Capsule oblong or rounded, 2.5-3 cm long and broad, beaked at apex, 3-5 celled, pitted, glabrous. Seeds 5-7 in each cell 6-9 mm long, 3-7 mm broad, ovoid, with long white hairs (lint) overlaying a greyish or white fuzz.