Shrub, the stems and petioles densely stipitate-stellate-tomentose, also with spreading glandular hairs; petioles 1.5-4 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate to ovate-oblong, 10-15 cm. long, about half as wide, falcately acuminate, bullate-hirsute and sparsely stellate-pubescent above, beneath foveolate, densely stellate-tomentose; inflorescence racemose, up to 10 cm. long, with a well developed central axis and stalked lateral branches; flowers sessile; hypanthium 4-4.5 mm. long, densely stellate-tomentose and glandular-hirsute; sepals round-ovate, 1-1.5 mm. long and about as wide; exterior teeth triangular, stellate on the back, barely surpassing the sepals; petals oblong-obovate, 4.5-5 mm. long; anthers subulate, 2.5-3 mm. long; connective very briefly prolonged below the thecae; ovary villous and glandular at the summit.
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