Shrubs ca. 2 m tall. Flowering branchlets brown or yellow-brown, 8-12(-20) cm, 4-6-leaved. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green or greenish when dry, ovate, ovate-oblong, or-lanceolate, 3-8 × 1-5 cm, papery or membranous, abaxially 4-7(or 8)-rayed stellate hairy, hairs with papilliform base, adaxially 3-5(or 6)-rayed stellate hairy, hairs rarely with central rays, veins in 3 or 4 pairs, conspicuously elevated abaxially, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Cymes few to many branched, 1.5-6 × 2-8 cm, 6-50-flowered; peduncle slender; pedicels 3-10 mm. Calyx tube ca. 3 × 3 mm, densely 10-12-rayed stellate hairy; lobes broadly deltoid, ca. 1.5 × 2-3 mm, apex acute. Petals induplicate, white, ovate-oblong, 5-12 × 2-3 mm. Outer stamens 5-6 mm, filament teeth spreading, oblong or lanceolate, ± level with or exceeding anthers. Inner stamens shorter than outer ones; filaments 2-lobed at apex; anthers borne near middle of filaments abaxially. Styles 3. Capsule globose, 4-5 mm in diam., with persistent, incurved calyx lobes. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Jun-Sep.
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