Shrub 2–3 m high. Branchlets with moderately dense coarse stellate hairs (0.1–0.25 mm long), aculei (0.5–1 mm long) and glandular hairs. Stipules caducous, narrowly triangular to triangular, 1–1.25 (–3) mm long. Mature leaves: petiole 7–15 mm long, indumentum dissimilar to branchlets (aculei usually absent, the stellate hairs denser than the branchlets, with a longitudinal band of long fine stellate hairs present on the adaxial surface; lamina narrowly ovate or oblong, unlobed, 45–60 (–170) mm long, 10–20 (–115) mm wide, cuneate to rounded base, weakly serrate to subentire margin, acute to obtuse apex, concolorous or discolorous (the abaxial surface darker than the adaxial), indumentum generally similar on both surfaces, the abaxial surface indumentum of the principal veins dissimilar to the interveinal regions (the hairs denser on the midrib, sometimes more or less evenly distributed), with stellate hairs (scattered to moderately dense and coarse, 0.05–0.25 mm long) and glandular hairs. Distal leaves reduced in size, oblong or narrowly ovate or narrowly elliptic. Foliar nectary present at lamina base (sometimes absent on some leaves), 1.5–7 (–12) mm long. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or sympodial in few-to several-flowered terminal and/or distal-axillary racemoid axes, not pedunculate; pedicel 6–9 mm long (to 10–19 mm long in mature fruit), with stellate hairs; epicalyx with stellate hairs, 9-segmented, segments free at the base, straight, broadly subulate, obscurely 1-veined, 0.12–0.2 times the length of the calyx, 2–3 mm long; calyx at anthesis 15–16 mm long, the indumentum yellowish (and also reddish, especially on veins and on lobes above), with stellate hairs (very dense) and sometimes with a few aculei on the very prominent ribs, calyx nectaries absent; Petals 50–60 mm long, pink with the proximal region reddish; staminal column 16–20 mm long, stamens distributed throughout its length, filaments 1–3 mm long; style exserted 4–5 mm beyond the apex of staminal column, branches 1.5–2 mm long, stigmas capitate, stigma hairs 1 mm long. Capsule ovoid, 12–17 mm long, densely hairy, beak 3 mm long. Seed angular-reniform, 4–5 mm long, striate and minutely pectinate-pubescent.
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