Shrubs, erect, to 1.5 m. Stems hairy to glabrate, hairs minutely stellate, ± appressed. Leaves: petiole to 2.5(–4) cm; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, unlobed, (3–)5–12.5 × (1.7–)3.2–7.5 cm, noticeably reduced in size distally on stem, base rounded to cordate, margins irregularly dentate to dentate-crenate, apex acute to acuminate, 7-veined from base, surfaces: abaxial tomentulose, adaxial sparingly stellate-pubescent. Cymes axillary, not borne on short shoots (brachyblasts), 2 or 3(or 4)-flowered; peduncle to 10 mm. Pedicels 3–7 mm. Flowers: sepals caducous, not persistent in fruit, reflexed at anthesis, ovate-lanceolate, 3 mm, stellate-pubescent abaxially; petal claws 2.5 mm, lamina reniform, 1 × 1.5 mm, base deeply lobed, lobes ovate-rounded, margins ± entire, apex entire, surfaces glabrous, abaxial appendage absent; androgynophore 0.2–0.3 mm; stamen filaments absent or nearly so; stigmas slightly exserted. Capsules oblate, 6–7 × 8–10 mm, densely short stellate-pubescent, prickles 1–1.5 mm. Seeds 3–5 mm, tuberculate.
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