Perennial 30-60 cm tall, glandular-villous. Rootstock with 1-2 ± ovoid tubers. Stem erect, striate, retrorsely pubescent-villous. Leaves 30-35 mm broad, orbicular to sub-reniform, palmatisect into 5-7 segments; segments pinnatipartite or-fid unequally into acute-obtuse lobes, appressed hairy. Stipules 2 mm long, ovate, sub-acuminate, pubescent; petiole 1-3 cm long, those of basal leaves up to 2.5 cm long, glandular. Peduncles 2-flowered. Flowers 13-15 mm broad. Pedicels 14-25 mm long. Bracts 1-2 mm long; lanceolate, dense hairy. Sepals (3.5-) 6.5-8 mm long, ovate, villous, awn c. 1 mm long, margin white. Petals 13-15 mm long, obcordate to obovate, emarginate, retuse, cuneate, reddish-pink, claw well-developed, ciliate. Filaments rose-cold red, hairy and ciliate in the upper 2/3 rd, ± dilated at the base and barely exceeding sepal length. Beak ± 2.5 cm long, pubescent-villous. Mericarps sparsely hairy. Seed c. 2.5 mm long, oblong, smooth.