Shrubs, 1–2 m. Stems erect, not rooting at nodes; branchlets brown to grayish brown, rigid, glabrate or tomentulose, glabrescent. Leaves not fascicled; petiole 1–3 mm; blade flat to ± cupped, elliptic, widely obovate, or suborbiculate, 10–20 × 7–18 mm, base rounded, margins thick, not revolute, usually sharply denticulate, sometimes weakly denticulate to almost entire, teeth 7–15, apex rounded to ± truncate, abaxial surface pale green to yellowish green, puberulent, hairs curly, glabrescent, adaxial surface green to yellowish green, sparsely puberulent, hairs curly, glabrescent. Inflorescences axillary, 0.7–2 cm. Flowers: sepals and petals white to cream; nectary yellow to green. Capsules 4–6 mm wide, usually not, sometimes weakly, lobed; valves smooth, horns lateral, usually minute, sometimes absent, spreading, intermediate ridges absent. 2n = 24.
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