Climbing shrubs, deciduous, large. Branchlets brown velutinous, glabrescent, lenticels subconspicuous; lenticels conspicuous on second-year branches; pith white, laminate. Petiole 2-4.5 cm, velutinous, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate-oblong to broadly ovate, 7-21 × 4-11 cm, papery, abaxially stellate tomentose, glabrescent, lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, reticulate veins prominent, adaxially slightly puberulent, soon glabrous, base cordatulate, margin finely serrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered, velutinous; peduncle 1-2 mm; pedicel 1.2-1.5 cm. Flowers red. Sepals 3-6, ovate, 6-7 mm. Petals 5 or 6, broadly ovate, 1.1-1.4 cm. Ovary globose, whitish tomentose. Fruit cylindric, ca. 2.3 cm, tomentose; persistent sepals not reflexed. Fl. Jun, fr. Oct-Nov.
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