Erect to spreading shrub (0.5-) 1-3 m tall. Branchlets softly angular becoming terete, subsericeous. Leaves ovate to obovate or broadly so, occasionally suborbicular, 2-6 cm long, 15-35 mm wide; upper surface smooth, minutely foveolate; margins very shortly recurved; lower surface densely tomentose to subtomentose with short curled to wavy hairs, or (subsp. ecarinata ) subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal (often on short axillary branchlets), decurved to pendulous, pedunculate, usually a short loose cluster or sometimes loosely cylindrical, few-to many-flowered; floral rachis 8-45 mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth densely subsericeous to shortly subtomentose outside, bearded inside. Pistil 18-24 mm long; style nearly straight, minutely and sparsely pubescent or papillose in apical 3-10 mm; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly and obliquely ovoid to-ellipsoidal, 15-20 mm long, glabrous, smooth except for 1 or 2 longitudinal ridges on each side.
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