Trailing, scrambling or climbing perennial to 2 m high; stems with retrorse appressed hairs, brittle. Leaves alternate, often peltate, sometimes appearing opposite, somewhat succulent and brittle, often with a darker circular zone; lamina cordate to circular in outline, 1–7 cm long, 18–90 mm wide, dissected one quarter to one third of the way to midrib, usually 5-lobed, basal lobes sometimes with a small secondary lobe, glabrous and glossy or strigose; margin entire, ciliate; petiole 5–55 mm long. Umbels 2–9-flowered; peduncles 4–15 cm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long; 4 sepals lanceolate, 1 narrow-ovate, 7.5–14 mm long, acute, pilose abaxially; sepal spur 8–15 mm long; petals obovate, 13–30 mm long, usually pale to deep pink, sometimes mauve. Fertile stamens usually seven. Fruit c. 37 mm long; mericarps hirtellous. Flowers throughout the year.
GipP, OtP. Recorded on coastal cliffs at Beaumaris, a bayside suburb of Melbourne. Native to South Africa.
