Shrubs, evergreen, 1–4 m. Stems erect, not rooting at nodes; branchlets light gray, glaucous, thorn-tipped or not, round or slightly angled in cross section, rigid, puberulent, glabrescent. Leaves not fascicled; petiole 3–12 mm; blade flat, elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 20–60 × 10–30 mm, base rounded or subcordate, margins entire, sometimes minutely glandular-denticulate above middle, glands 26–52, apex obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, appressed-puberulent, glabrescent, adaxial surface grayish green, dull, glabrate; 3-veined from base. Inflorescences axillary, usually paniclelike, sometimes racemelike, 3–6 cm. Flowers: sepals, petals, and nectary usually white to cream, sometimes pink. Capsules 4–5 mm wide, ± lobed; valves rugose, viscid when young, not or weakly crested. 2n = 24.
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