Shrubs 0.3-1 m tall. Flowering branchlets brownish, 1-4 cm, 2-4 leaved, stellate hairy. Petiole 3-5 mm, stellate hairy; leaf blade ovate-rhomboid or ovate-elliptic, 2-5(-7) × 1.5-3(-4) cm, abaxially sparsely 5-or 6(or 7)-rayed stellate hairy, indumentum discontinuous, hairs along veins with central rays, adaxially 4-or 5-rayed stellate hairy, veins in 4 or 5 pairs, base cuneate or broadly so, margin irregularly serrulate or with alternating large and small teeth, apex acute. Cymes 1-1.5 × 1-1.5 cm, (1 or)2-or 3-flowered. Calyx tube ca. 2 × 4 mm, densely 4-6-rayed stellate hairy, hairs with central rays; lobes linear-lanceolate, 5-9 mm. Petals induplicate, white, obovate-oblong or-lanceolate, 1.5-20 × 5-7 mm. Outer stamens 6-7 mm; filaments 2-dentate at apex, teeth horizontal or recurved, falcate; anthers stalked, oblong. Inner stamens 3.5-4.5 mm. Styles 3 or 4, ca. 1.2 cm. Capsule hemispheric, ca. 4 mm in diam., with persistent, recurved calyx lobes. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep-Oct.
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