Perennial, silvery-canescent herb, 20-35 cm. Leaves ovate-oblong to elliptical 12-30 x 7-15 m, rounded at the base, blade plicate, crenate. Inflorescence 2-6-flowered umbels, peduncle 12-16 cm long, scape-like. Flowers bracteate; bracts ovate, acuminate; pedicels much longer than sepals at flowering and fruiting. Sepals 4-5 mm long, mucronate, densely pubescent to tomentose. Petals slightly longer than sepals, obovate, pink in colour. Mericarps with only short dense hairs; 4-5 mm long, with two transverse furrows at the apex, beak up to 4 cm long, plumose.