Scandent shrubs, robust climbers, or trees, trunk to 20 cm d.b.h.; stems, petioles, and pedicels stellate pubescent. Stipules linear to lanceolate, ca. 1 × 0.3 cm, stellate tomentose; petiole 5-7 cm; leaf blade ovate, not lobed, 5-15 × 4-12 cm, thickly papery, both surfaces stellate hairy, denser abaxially, glabrescent, basal veins 5-7, base cordate, margin repand or dentate, apex acuminate. Flowers solitary, axillary, ± congested into a terminal raceme, fragrant. Pedicel 3-7 cm, with subapical articulation. Epicalyx lobes 5, ovate, joined at base, 4-14 × 5-10 mm, stellate pubescent, apex acuminate. Calyx lobes joined for ca. 1/2 length, ovate, 1-2 × 0.3-1 cm, abaxially with mixed stellate and club-shaped hairs, adaxially stellate tomentose, apices acuminate. Corolla white to pale pink with pale yellow center, ± spreading, ca. 3 cm in diam.; petals 2-4 × 2-3 cm, abaxially sparsely stellate pilose, adaxially glabrous. Filament tube ca. 1 cm, purplish. Capsule ovoid, 3-4 × 1.5-2 cm, densely stellate hairy. Seeds small, reniform, white or brown hirsute.
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