Shrub or tree, 1-4.5 m high. Leaves obovate to obovate-cuneate or obtrullate or rarely elliptic or almost round, 5-16 cm long, (10-) 20-55 mm wide, usually with 2-5 (-8) marginal teeth or shallow broadly triangular lobes mostly in apical half or occasionally entire; surfaces similar with an inconspicuous dense to open indumentum of appressed biramous hairs. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, decurved, simple or basally 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence dense, ovoid to shortly subcylindrical; ultimate floral rachis 20-50 mm long. Perianth glabrous outside or occasionally subsericeous with biramous hairs only, white-villous inside; tepals everting after anthesis with beard displayed. Pistil 13.5-20 mm long; ovary glabrous or with scattered erect hairs towards apex; style glabrous or with a sparse to open indumentum of minute biramous and/or erect simple glandular hairs over some or all of its length. Follicle obliquely ellipsoidal to obloid-ellipsoidal or subglobose, 11-24 mm long, glabrous.
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