Herb to 30 cm high, often greyish-green in appearance; stems villous with long spreading hairs. Leaves fan-shaped, 5–12-lobed (occasionally lobes grouped in 3s or 4s), 5–15 mm long, 4–8 mm wide; lamina with white spreading hairs; petiole conspicuous; stipules bowl-shaped, 2.5–4 mm wide, divided to midway into c. 8 triangular lobes, veins inconspicuous, hairs scattered, long and spreading, mainly along margins. Flowers in clusters of 5–7. Sepals 4, triangular, 0.3–0.4 mm long, often with long spreading hairs at apex, but the remainder almost without hairs; hypanthium urceolate to elliptic, distinctly 5–10-ribbed, hairs white bristly to spreading, longer hairs chiefly near ribs, 1.5–2(–2.5) mm long. Fruiting hypanthium green to light brown. Flowers (Oct.–)Nov.–Jan.(–Mar.).