Slender deciduous tree up to 6 m. or more tall, with branchlets, lvs and infl. ± densely clad in stellate hairs. Juvenile plants with lvs on slender petioles up to ± 5 cm. long; lamina 2-7 × 2-6 cm., thin, ovate to suborbicular, truncate to cordate, us. deeply 2-5-lobed; teeth doubly, deeply crenate. Adults with lvs on stouter petioles (1)-2-4 cm. long; lamina submembr., (3)-5-10 × 2-5 cm., broad-ovate, truncate to cordate at base or sts rounded both at base and apex; us. deeply doubly or trebly crenate, sts incised-crenate or lobed as in juveniles. Fls 2-3-(4) cm. diam., in cymose, ebracteate, 2-5-fld fascicles to solitary, on slender pedicels (1)-2-3-(5) cm. long. Calyx cupuliform c. 7-10 mm. long, densely pubescent without; teeth 5 (occ. small accessory teeth are present). Petals us. 5, obliquely obovate, us. notched, shortly clawed, up to 2 × 1 cm. Staminal column ± 7 mm. long; filaments 3-5 mm. long, anthers purple. Styles filiform, stellately pilose; stigma obliquely capitate to decurrent. Carpels 10-15, pubescent, compressed, obscurely winged; seeds much compressed.
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