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A low-growing, much-branched, suffrutescent perennial, the younger shoots and leaves downy. Petioles 1–2 in. long, equalling the leaves, which are cordate, roundish, obscurely 3-lobed; lobes broad entire or crenate. Stipules linear. Pedicels nearly as long as the leaves, simple, solitary, axillary, 1-flowered, thickened at the apex, jointed. Sepals ovate, acute, slightly cuspidate, downy, much shorter than the ripe fruit, which is cylindrical, truncate, scarcely an inch long, about an inch across, and consisting of 20 or more membranous, readily-separable carpels, each terminated by two awns, which are at first erect and ultimately spread horizontally. Seeds large; columella thick cylindrical or clavate, longer than the calyx.