Shrub or small tree, up to 8 m. tall, the younger parts of the stem, petioles, panicle, and lower leaf-surface floccose-tomentulose with stellate hairs; petioles 1-4 cm. long; leaf-blades usually ovate, varying to ovate-oblong, up to 2 din. long, half to two-thirds as wide, acute or short-acuminate, conspicuously serrate and ciliate, rounded to subcordate at base, 7-to 9-pli-nerved, sparsely hirsutulous above with simple hairs; panicle many-flowered, 1-2 din. long; buds pyriform, 4-5 mm. long, acuminate and often falcate, the hypanthial portion stellate-tomentulose, the calycine portion nearly glabrous; hypanthium 2.5 mm. long at anthesis; petals pink, 4-5 mm. long; style about 4 mm. long, abruptly dilated and bent just below the capitate stigma.
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