Climbing shrubs, deciduous, large. Branchlets velutinous, glabrescent, lenticels conspicuous; second-year branches glabrous, lenticels conspicuous; pith brown, laminate. Petiole 4-6 cm, velutinous, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate to orbicular, 8-14 × 4.5-10 cm, papery, abaxially stellate tomentose, glabrescent, adaxially pubescent, soon glabrous, lateral veins 8 pairs, base cordatulate, margin finely serrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered, velutinous; peduncle 0.6-1.4 cm; pedicel 1-1.8 cm. Flowers pink or pinkish yellow. Sepals 4-6, broadly ovate, 5-7 mm, velutinous. Petals 5-7, ovate or narrowly ovate, 1-1.3 cm. Ovary globose, ca. 4 mm, whitish tomentose. Fruit oblong to ovoid, ca. 1.7 cm, tomentose, with persistent sepals. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Oct-Nov.
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