Climbing shrubs, deciduous, large. Branchlets brown velutinous, lenticels conspicuous; second-year branches glabrous, lenticels conspicuous; pith brown, laminate. Petiole 2.5-6 cm, brown velutinous when young, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, 9-20 × 5-9.5 cm, papery, abaxially glaucous near margin, stellate tomentose when young, glabrescent, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, adaxially glabrous, base rounded or cordatulate, margin finely serrate, apex acute. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered, brown velutinous; peduncle 3-7 mm; pedicel 0.6-1.3 cm. Flowers pink. Sepals 3-5, ovate, ca. 5 mm. Petals 5, obovate, ca. 9 mm. Ovary ovoid, whitish tomentose. Fruit ovoid or oblong, ca. 2 cm, sparsely velutinous; persistent sepals not reflexed. Fl. Apr, fr. Oct.
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