Leaves ovate to elliptic, apically acuminate to short caudate, basally shal-lowly cordate, frequently imbricate-lobed, mostly 11-14 cm long and 5-8 cm wide, the narrowed apices ca. 1 cm long, scabrous above, scabrous to strigose beneath, densely so along the veins; petioles 4-5 cm long, puberulent and sparsely pilose. Inflorescences densely brown puberulent throughout with sparse over-topping pilose hairs; peduncles mostly 12-15 cm long; pedicels usually 2.5-3.3 cm long, rarely with pilose hairs. Flowers 1.8-2 cm in diameter; calyx abaxially brown puberulent, occasionally with one to a few longer pilose hairs, adaxially glabrous or nearly so, the lobes ovate to lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, 4-5 mm long and 2-3 mm wide; corolla greenish-white, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 7.5-8.5 mm long and 4-5 mm wide, adaxially papillate in a prominent median band to 1 mm or more wide, densely to sparsely hirsute along the margin of the band of papil-lae with non-or uni-septate, flattened, and pointed hairs to ca. 0.4 mm long, ciliate along one margin, the cilia multiseptate, ca. 0.5 mm long, strongly cris-pate near the apex on both margins, undulate below the crisped portions; corona 5-lobate, the surface vermiform-fimbriate, ca. 1 mm high; gynostegium ca. 2 mm high, inflated portions of the stamens thin, subquadrate in surface outline, staminal membranes broadly rounded, covering most of the stigma head; ovaries glabrate. Follicles unknown.
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