Shrub 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets with moderately to very dense fine and coarse stellate hairs (fine hairs 0.2–0.5 mm long, coarse hairs 0.5–1 mm long), aculei 1.5–3.5 mm long (these sometimes very sparse) and glandular hairs. Stipules at length deciduous or persistent, subulate to narrowly triangular, 5–10 mm long. Climax leaves: petiole 50–160 mm long, indumentum similar or dissimilar to that of the branchlet (sometimes with aculei); lamina broadly ovate, broadly elliptic, circular or transversely broadly elliptic, unlobed to shallowly 3-lobed (lobes as long as wide to shorter than wide), 70–210 mm long, 85–240 mm wide, cordate (sometimes shallowly) base, serrate (sometimes obscurely) margin, acute, obtuse or acuminate apex, concolorous, indumentum similar on both surfaces, the midrib and primary vein indumentum similar or dissimilar to the interveinal regions, on the principal veins aculei usually present and stellate hairs denser, aculei 1.25–1.75 mm long or absent, the stellate hairs moderately to very dense (fine hairs 0.2–0.5 mm long, coarse hairs 0.4–1 mm long). Distal leaves reduced in size, narrowly ovate or ovate or obovate or narrowly elliptic to rhombic. Foliar nectary at lamina base, 4–10 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or sympodial in few-to several-flowered terminal and/or distal-axillary racemoid axes; peduncle 3–40 mm long (10–40 mm long on axillary flowers, 3–12 mm long on sympodia), with fine stellate hairs, aculei usually present; pedicel 6–15 mm long at anthesis (up to 27 mm long in fruit), indumentum dissimilar to peduncle; epicalyx with stellate hairs and aculei, 10–12-segmented, segments free at the base, incurved, linear to subulate, 1-or 3-veined, 0.5–0.6 times the length of the calyx, 9–14 mm long; calyx at anthesis 17–22 mm long (to 34 mm long in fruit), the indumentum yellowish, moderately to dense stellate hairs and aculei, calyx nectaries absent; petals 50–80 mm long, pink with proximal region reddish; staminal column 18 mm long, stamens distributed throughout its length, filaments 1 mm long; style exserted 5–6 mm beyond apex of the staminal column, branches 1 mm long, stigmas capitate, stigma hairs 0.5 mm long. Capsule ovoid or broadly ovoid, 14–18 mm long, densely hairy, the hairs appressed, beak 1–2 mm long. Seed angular-reniform, c. 4 mm long, striate and minutely pectinate-pubescent.
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