Radyera farragei

Short-lived perennial to c. 1 m high. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, c. 4–15 cm long and wide, often shallowly 3-lobed, cordate at base, margins irregularly dentate, both surfaces densely stellate-pubescent. Flowers subsessile, usually 3–10 together in axillary cymes or racemes, usually only 1 open at a time; epicalyx c. 1 cm, densely stellate-pubescent, the lower half cup-like, the narrow, apically thickened lobes somewhat recurved; calyx shortly exceeding epicalyx and of similar form, both often purplish; petals purplish with a darker basal blotch, 2.5–3.5 cm long, widely spreading. Capsule globular, c. 15 mm diam., exceeding the calyx; seeds c. obovoid, 3–4 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Jan.