Stems slender, silky white pilose.. Leaf-blade squarish-reniform, up to 8 mm. long and 9 mm. broad, very obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cordate at the base, glabrous above, glabrescent or thinly pilose beneath; petiole up to 10 mm. long.. Flowers solitary or on young shoots sometimes appearing to be clustered in small cymes; peduncles 3 mm. long.. Calyx silky pilose; sepals ovate, 2 mm. long, sometimes accrescent in fruit and attaining 5 mm. long and 2.5 mm. wide.. Corolla white, pink or pale bluish-mauve, much exceeding the calyx, 5 mm. long.. Fruit white, tomentose, 4-lobed; lobes up to 1.5 mm. in diameter.. Seeds smooth, black-brown, about 1 mm. long.. Fig. 3.
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