Stock very stout, up to c. 1 cm. diam., multicipital, branches up to ± 6 cm. long, clad in persistent lf-bases and stipules. Lvs in rosettes at tips of stock branches, on slender, densely retrorsely hairy petioles up to ± 6 cm. long. Lamina up to ± 15 mm. diam., rather densely clad in appressed hairs giving the surface a greyish colour, irregularly 3-5-7-lobed and again ± crenately toothed. Peduncles us. 1-fld, 2-3 cm. long, at first densely retrorsely hairy. Sepals ± 5 mm. long, oblong to ovate, obtuse, awned, densely clad in appressed hairs; petals ± 6 mm. long, white; carpels ± 10 mm. long, including beak. Seeds ± 2 mm. long, smooth.