Shrub 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets with stellate hairs (fine and coarse, moderately dense to very dense), glandular hairs and aculei (1–3.5 mm long). Stipules deciduous, sometimes 2-lobed, linear to very narrowly triangular, 4–9 mm long. Climax leaves: petiole 25–75 mm long, indumentum dissimilar to that of the branchlet with denser stellate hairs and no aculei; lamina ovate, broadly ovate to oblong, unlobed to deeply 3–5-lobed (the lobes longer than wide to shorter than wide), 70–130 mm long, 45–140 mm wide, base truncate to cordate, margin serrate, apex acute, obtuse or acuminate, indumentum similar on both surfaces, the abaxial surface with midrib and primary vein indumentum dissimilar to interveinal regions with stellate hairs (moderately dense to very dense, fine or coarse) and glandular hairs, ± aculei (1–2 mm long). Distal leaves reduced in size, narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic, oblong or ovate, concolorous to weakly discolorous. Foliar nectary at lamina base or absent, 1–5 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or sympodial in few-to several-flowered terminal and/or distal-axillary racemoid axes, not pedunculate; pedicel 8–13 mm long, fine dense stellate hairs, large coarse stellate hairs and few aculei; epicalyx indumentum of stellate hairs and ± aculei, 8–11-segmented, segments free basally, incurved, linear, 13–19 mm long; calyx at anthesis 14–16 mm long, indumentum whitish to yellowish, with very dense stellate hairs, ± aculei, calyx nectaries absent; petals 40–70 mm long, pink with the proximal region reddish; staminal column 14–20 mm long with the stamens distributed throughout its length, the filaments 1–1.5 mm long; style exserted 1–6 mm beyond the apex of the staminal column, the branches 2 mm long, stigmas capitate, stigma hairs 0.5 mm long. Capsule ovoid, 11–15 mm long, densely hairy, beak 1 mm long. Seed angular-reniform, c. 4 mm long, striate with minute pectinate scales.
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