Shrubs to 2.5 m high; stems woody at the base, herbaceous at the tips, hollow, glabrous or minutely puberulent. Leaves suborbicular, ovate to lanceolate, 10-25 cm long, truncate to shallowly cordate basally, long acuminate apically, pu-berulent on both surfaces but sometimes glabrescent. Flowers in cymose-panicu-late clusters at the branch tips, 1-to several-flowered; sepals suborbicular, 5-6 mm long, subcoriaceous, glabrate or puberulent; corollas deep pink to rose-purple, the throat darker than the limb, 5-8 cm long, finely tomentose outside. Fruits capsular, ovoid to subglobose, 2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diameter; seeds covered with long comose brown trichomes.
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