Shrub to 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets with scattered to dense coarse bristles (2–3.7 mm long) and glandular hairs, indumentum yellowish, the glandular hairs can be rusty. Stipules ± persistent, linear, 5.5–11 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, indumentum of stellate hairs, fine bristles and glandular hairs. Mature leaves: petiole 20–55 mm long; lamina ovate to broadly ovate, unlobed, 30–100 mm long, 15–80 mm wide, cordate base, serrate to serrulate or dentate margin, acute to obtuse apex, discolourous, indumentum generally similar on both surfaces or more dense on abaxial surface, indumentum similar on veins and interveinal regions, stellate hairs on abaxial surface scattered to moderately dense, the hairs coarse, stellate hairs on adaxial surface moderately dense to dense, rays 1–3.2 mm in diam., hairs sessile, multiradiate with 4–8 rays, whitish to yellowish; distal leaves ovate, reduced in size. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; pedunculate, peduncle 8–40 mm long with sparse to moderately dense coarse stellate hairs and spare coarse bristles; pedicel 3–10 mm long, with stellate hairs. Epicalyx segments 8–11, linear, 11–18 mm long, shorter than the calyx at anthesis, free or very slightly fused at the base, straight in flower and becoming recurved in fruit, with sparse to moderately dense stellate hairs and coarse bristles. Calyx 15–30 mm long at anthesis; lobes triangular, 12–20 mm long at anthesis, enlarging to 28 mm long in fruit, with sparse to moderately dense coarse stellate hairs, and moderately dense to dense white, simple, soft, ± appressed hairs on upper two thirds to 3/4 of lobes, remainder of lobe and basally glabrous, hairs yellowish to brownish, lobes without prominent marginal ribs. Petals 25–46 mm long, adnate to staminal column at base but otherwise free, pink, with a red basal spot, glabrous adaxially, with sparse hairs abaxially, both stellate and glandular, usually apically, and sometimes associated with the darker colour of the petal. Staminal column 12–18 mm long, apex 5-lobed, with the stamens usually distributed singly along the distal 8–14 mm of the column; staminal filaments 0.5–1.5 mm long, anthers yellow, pollen yellow. Style 5-branched, with branches 0.3–2.5 mm long, exerted 0.5–5 mm beyond the apex of the staminal column, stigmas capitate, 0.5–0.8 mm wide. Capsule broadly ovoid, 10–12 mm long, indumentum of dense, stiff, white, simple, erect hairs over most of surface, becoming less dense basally, capsule beak 0.4–1.5 mm long, or lacking a beak. Seeds angular-subreniform, 2.7–4.1 mm long, seeds very black with shiny black pustules, pustules with very short hairs or projections, the pustules forming ridges and patterns; with brown funiculus.
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