Shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets with stellate hairs (fine and coarse, sparse to moderately dense, scattered or in a longitudinal band on each internode), glandular hairs, and with or without aculei (0.4–1 mm long, sparse to moderately dense). Stipules subulate to very narrowly triangular, 3–5 mm long, with stellate hairs and glandular hairs, caducous. Climax leaves: petiole 20–60 mm long, with indumentum dissimilar to that of branchlet; lamina ovate, broadly ovate, narrowly ovate or orbicular, unlobed to deeply 1–3-lobed (lobes longer than wide to as long as wide, with acute to obtuse apex), 90–140 mm long, 50–110 mm wide, truncate or cordate base, serrate to serrulate margin, concolorous or discolourous, the indumentum similar on both surfaces, the abaxial surface with stellate hairs (scattered to moderately dense, coarse) and glandular hairs. Foliar nectary at lamina base, 2–15 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or sympodial (in few-to several-flowered terminal and/or distal-axillary racemoid axes); peduncle 0–42 mm long, with moderately dense fine stellate hairs; pedicel 11–30 mm long in fruit, with stellate hairs; epicalyx with stellate hairs, 8-or 9-segmented, the segments free at the base, linear, incurved, 13–17 mm long in fruit, 3-veined; calyx 19–30 mm long in fruit, indumentum yellowish, with very dense stellate hairs, calyx nectaries absent; petals 6–7.5 mm long, pink; staminal column 20–22 mm long, stamens distributed evenly along the length of the column, the filaments 1–1.5 mm long; style extends 4–7 mm above apex of staminal column, the branches c. 1 mm in length. Capsule ovoid, 18–20 mm long, densely hairy, the hairs appressed; beak 1–3 mm long. Seeds angular-subreniform, c. 4 mm long.
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