Shrubs 0.6-2 m tall, branched. Stems terete, puberulous and yellow glandular when young. Petiole 0.4-1.5(-2.8) cm, densely puberulous and remotely glandular; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to ovate, (5-)10-12(-25) × (2-)3-7.3(-10) cm, papery, abaxially densely puberulous and remotely glandular on veins otherwise densely yellow glandular, adaxially only puberulous on veins, secondary veins 1 or 2 on each side of midvein, base obtuse to rounded, margin nearly entire to minutely denticulate, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, panicled cymose, 7.5-13 × 3-7 cm, densely puberulous and remotely glandular. Pedicels 1-3 mm. Hypanthium funnelform, 3.8-6(-8) mm, (3 or)4-sided, densely stipitate glandular. Calyx lobes shortly triangular or spatulate, 0.5-3 mm. Petals (3 or)4, pink to reddish lavender, ovate, 2.5-4(-5) mm, inclined to one side, ± glandular, apex acute. Stamens (3 or)4; filaments 5-7(-10) mm, sparsely puberulous; anthers linear, (4.8-)6.2-7.4(-8) mm, slightly curved, 2-tuberculate to sagittate at base; connective not or only minutely inflated, extended to base. Ovary half inferior, ovoid, (3 or)4-celled, ± glandular. Capsule ovoid, 3.8-4.5 × 2.5-3 mm, crowned by hypanthium lobes, yellow glandular when immature, dehiscing longitudinally. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Nov.
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