Subshrub, shrub or herb 0.2–1.5 m high. Branchlets with moderately dense to very dense stellate hairs (coarse hairs 0.5–1.2 mm long, fine hairs 0.2–1.2 mm long), indumentum yellowish or brownish. Stipules at length deciduous, filiform to very narrowly triangular, 2.3–4.5 mm long, 0.15–0.35 mm wide, indumentum of stellate and glandular hairs. Mature leaves: petiole 5–25 mm long, indumentum like branchlet; lamina ovate, broadly ovate to narrowly elliptic, unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed (the lobes longer than wide or as long as wide), 15–115 mm long, 10–75 mm wide, rounded, cuneate, truncate or cordate base, entire, crenate, serrate or serrulate margin, acute to obtuse apex, discolourous; indumentum generally similar on both surfaces, indumentum similar on veins and interveinal regions, stellate hairs on adaxial surface moderately dense to dense with sparse single or biarmed hairs, multiradiate with 1–10 rays, rays 0.5–1.1 mm long, stellate hairs on abaxial surface moderately dense, dense to very dense, multiradiate with 8–16 rays, rays 0.6–1.2 mm in diam., indumentum whitish, yellowish or rusty; distal leaves reduced in size. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; pedunculate, peduncle 20–130 mm long with moderately dense to very dense stellate hairs; pedicel 3–10 mm long, with stellate hairs, pedicel flattened and broadening distally. Epicalyx segments 6–8, spathulate, 8–18 mm long, shorter than to as long as the calyx at anthesis, free or very slightly fused at the base, straight in flower and becoming recurved in fruit, with moderately dense to very dense stellate hairs, the segments 1–5-veined. Calyx 12–22 mm long at anthesis; lobes ovate, 11–12 mm long at anthesis, enlarging to 16 mm long in fruit, abaxial indumentum with dense, crisped, semi-erect crisped hairs on lobes, also sparse, stellate hairs on lobe margins and adjacent, becoming glabrous basally, indumentum whitish, yellowish, or rusty, lobes without prominent marginal ribs. Petals 20–55 mm long, adnate to staminal column at base but otherwise free, white, pink or yellow, with a red basal spot, adaxially glabrous, with sparse stellate hairs abaxially on half to 3/4 of petal, and with a dense fringe of simple hairs basally on margins between petals. Staminal column 8–10 mm long, apex irregularly 5-lobed, with the stamens distributed singly or twinned along the distal 6–10 mm of the column; staminal filaments 1.3–3 mm long. Style 5-branched, with branches 2.5–4 mm long, exerted 5–11 mm beyond the apex of the staminal column, stigmas capitate, 1–1.5 mm wide, hairs 0.2–0.8 mm long. Capsule broadly ovoid, 12–15 mm long, indumentum of very dense simple and bi-armed, ± appressed hairs all over, capsule beak 1–1.2 mm long. Seeds subreniform, 3–3.5 mm long, with an indumentum of short pubescent hairs, hairs brownish-rusty or white, 0.2–0.5 mm long, with large reddish-brown wing-like funicle of membranous tissue.
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