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A shrub. It has many stems. It grows 2-3 m high. The bark is reddish-brown. The leaves are oblong and 2-7 cm long by 1.5-4.5 cm wide. They are dull green above and slightly paler underneath. There are scattered hairs on both surfaces. The edges of the leaves are toothed or scalloped. The flowers are white or cream and 3.5 cm across. They occur in groups of 3 in the axils of leaves and at the ends of branches. The flower stalks have long creamy hairs. The fruit are deeply divided into 4 lobes. Each lobe is 8 mm across.
Leaf-lamina 2–7 × 1·5–4·5 cm., obovate or occasionally oblong, rounded or bluntly acuminate at the apex, margin crenate-dentate, rounded or slightly cordate at the slightly asymmetrical base, slightly scabrous above, hispid or tomentose below, secondary venation rather prominent below; petiole up to 0·5 cm. long, tomentellous; stipules c. 2 mm. long, linear, caducous.
Inflorescences usually at the ends of the branchlets, usually more than 3-flowered; peduncles 1–1·5 cm. long, ferruginously hairy; pedicels similar, c. 1 cm. long; bracts up to 2·5 mm. long, hairy on the outside, entire, linear-lanceolate.
Petals white, 7·5–13 mm. long, narrowly triangular, tapering to the apex, with a basal nectariferous claw circumvillous within and ledged above.
Androgynophore up to 1·5 mm. long, glabrous below, sulcate, elongated above the node into a tomentellous upper portion 2–3·5 mm. tall.
Shrub, 2-3 m high. Leaves not discolorous. Inflorescences concentrated at ends of branches. Fruit 4-lobed. Flowers white.
Erect or straggling shrub 2–3 m. tall; young branches and inflorescences ferruginously tomentose.
Sepals 12–18 mm. long, linear-oblong, rufous-tomentose outside, glabrous and white within.
Flower-buds oblong, slightly inflated at the base, slightly constricted above the base.
Fruit 1·5–2 cm. in diam., 4-lobed, sparingly hispid, slightly fleshy.
Ovary globose, 4-lobed; stigma with 4–5 broad lobes.
