Subshrubs or shrubs to 1–2 m high. Branchlets with stellate hairs of one to two size classes (moderately dense to very dense and obscuring the epidermis, long soft stellate hairs 2.2–3.4 mm long, short soft stellate hairs 0.3–0.5 mm long), lacking glandular hairs. Mature leaves: petiole 20 –45 mm long; lamina broadly elliptic, 3-lobed, 26–134 mm long, 19–160 mm wide, base cordate, margin serrate-dentate to crenate, apex acute, indumentum short soft stellate-hairy, yellowish or rarely whitish. Flowers with the peduncle to 34 mm long, pedicel present; epicalyx short soft stellate-hairy, 5–7-segmented, segments shortly connate at base, spathulate to narrowly spathulate, 10–35 mm long by 1–5 mm wide, shorter to longer than the calyx; calyx short soft stellate-hairy on the abaxial surface or rarely also long soft stellate-hairy, campanulate, 15–40 mm long, lobes ovate, apex acute, 3-veined; petals yellow with red basal spots, short coarse stellate-hairy on the abaxial surface, glabrous on the adaxial surface, 34–80 mm long, 24–64 mm wide, rounded at the apex; staminal column glabrous, 13–80 mm long, stamens distributed throughout, filaments 0.7–2 mm long; ovary hairy, style arms 1–6 mm long. Capsule hairy, 12–20 long, 12–15 mm wide, beak 1– 2 mm long. Seeds angular reniform, 3–3.5 mm long, concentrically ribbed, glabrous or short brownish to yellowish stellate-hairy.
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