Dombeya autumnalis I.Verd.

Shrub or small tree, 1.6-5 m tall. Branchlets slender, leafy, new growth shortly stellate-pubescent, the pubescence formed of short spreading hairs from a scaly base. Stipules caducous, deltoid or linear-subulate from a deltoid base, densely pubescent. Leaves more or less orbicular, 1.5-5 cm long, 1-5 cm broad (on flowering branches), densely to sparsely stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, finely crenate-dentate on the margins, reticulate veins rather obscure beneath; petiole slender, 2-12 cm long, stellate-pubescent. Cymes in the axils of the upper leaves often overtopping them, sometimes shorter; peduncles slender, about 2.5 cm long, pubescent; pedicels very slender, 1-1.5 cm long, pubescent. Bracts 3, 1 or 2 at the calyx-base, or all scattered on the pedicel, linear-navicular, about 2.5 mm long, pubescent on both surfaces. Calyx rounded at the base, united for 0.5 mm; lobes reflexed, about 4 mm long, 2 mm broad, dorsally stellate-pubescent. Petals persistent, white turning cinnamon-rufous with age, about 7 mm long, 5 mm broad. Stamens united at the base for more or less 1 mm, filaments with the longest about 2.5 mm long; anthers up to 1 mm long; staminodes about 5 mm long. Ovary globose, about 3 mm in diameter, shortly stellate-tomentose (not setose); style glabrous or minutely stellate-pubescent, about 2 mm long, branches about 2 mm long; ovules 2 in a cell. Capsule about 5 mm in diameter, stellate-tomentose.