Soft-wooded shrub or shrubby herb, up to 1 m or more tall; all parts pubescent to tomentose and sometimes also with long simple hairs. Leaves long-petiolate; blade ovate to suborbicular, up to 12 x 9 cm, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, with serrate-dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils or on short axillary shoots; pedicels 1.5–8 cm long. Calyx 9–13 mm long. Petals 14–25 mm long, yellow to orange. Mericarps c. 20–30, 11–16 x 4–6 mm, 2–3-seeded, with a 3–5 mm long awn, ultimately stellately spreading and black. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose, and spiny-papillose towards hilum.