Shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets with stellate hairs (fine hairs 0.15–0.35 mm long, coarse hairs 0.25–1.1 mm long, sparse or moderately dense or very dense and also in a dense longitudinal band on each internode), sparse to moderately dense aculei (0.7–1.5 mm long) and glandular hairs. Stipules caducous, subulate, 2–5 mm long. Climax leaves: petiole 25–120 mm long, the indumentum dissimilar to the branchlet (aculei sparse or absent, coarse stellate hairs sometimes dominant over the fine, usually with a longitudinal band of fine stellate hairs distinguishable on the adaxial surface); lamina broadly ovate or circular to depressed ovate, unlobed to shallowly 7-lobed (commonly 3-lobed, the lobes shorter than wide and with the apex acute to rounded, but often with a minute acumen), 50–120 mm long, 75–180 mm wide, truncate to cordate base, subentire or crenulate margins (with minute teeth in the sinuses, or serrulate to serrate), lamina concolorous to weakly discolorous (the adaxial surface is brighter), indumentum generally similar on both surfaces or denser on the abaxial surface with the midrib and primary vein indumentum similar or dissimilar to that of the interveinal regions (the hairs often distinctly denser on the main veins and apparently always associated with veins), with stellate hairs and glandular hairs (the stellate hairs moderately dense or sometimes scattered, fine or coarse, the hairs usually fine and soft to touch, the fine hairs 0.1–0.3 mm long, the coarse hairs 0.2–0.7 mm long). Distal leaves reduced in size, elliptic, narrowly ovate or ovate (sometimes rhombic or narrowly obovate). Foliar nectary present at the lamina base, 4–18 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or sympodial in few to several-flowered terminal and/or distal axillary racemoid axes, not pedunculate; pedicel 3–9 mm long with stellate hairs and usually aculei; epicalyx with stellate hairs and aculei, 6–22-segmented, straight, subulate, 0.25–0.5 times the length of the calyx, 6–11 mm long, segments connate at base, the free portion 4–5 mm long, 3-veined; calyx at anthesis 15–22 mm long, indumentum yellowish, with stellate hairs and aculei, stellate hairs moderately to very dense; petals 50–80 mm long, pink with the proximal region reddish and a darker pink stripe along the edge of the petals; staminal column 15–18 mm long with the stamens distributed throughout its length, filaments 1–1.5 mm long; style exserted 2–7 mm beyond the apex of the staminal column, style branches c. 1 mm long, stigmas capitate, the stigma hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Capsule ovoid or broadly ovoid, 16–23 mm long, densely hairy, the hairs appressed or slightly ascending, the beak 1–2 mm long. Seed c. 4 mm long, striate, angular-reniform, minutely pectinate-pubescent.
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