A perennial, covered for the most part with fine down, intermingled with which are a few villi. Leaves on very long hispid stalks, orbicular, cordate, acuminate, dentate, downy on both surfaces, villous or hispid along the nerves. Stipules large, oblique, broadly ovate-anceolate. Inflorescence a terminal, ultimately leafless, panicle; pedicels short, jointed below the middle. Calyx hispid, deeply 5-parted; segments ovate-lanceolate. Ripe fruit cylindrical, truncate, umbilicate, longer than the persistent calyx. Carpels 20, not seceding, oblong, subrostrate, blackish, membranous, dehiscing along the dorsal suture, each 3-seeded. Seeds covered with tufts of stellate hairs.
