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Erect shrubs to 2 m tall, with woody stem swollen at base or lower part; branches stout and short, fleshy, sparsely lenticellate. Stipules spiniform, persistent leaf scar large and prominent; petiole 8-10 cm, glabrous; leaf blade peltate, rotund to elliptic, 8-18(-25) × 6-16 cm, nitid green adaxially, gray-green abaxially, glabrous on both surfaces, base truncate or obtuse, margin entire or shallowly 2-6-lobed, apex obtuse; palmate veins 6-8. Inflorescences terminal, long pedunculate, branching short, red; calyx ca. 2 mm; sepals rotund, ca. 1 mm; petals obovate-oblong, ca. 6 mm, red; stamens 6-8, connate at base; anthers nearly as long as filaments; ovary glabrous; styles 3, connate at base, bifid at apex. Capsules ellipsoidal, 1.3-1.8 × ca. 1.5 cm, with 3 longitudinal grooves. Seeds ca. 1.1 cm, smooth. Fl. and fr. almost throughout year.
Subshrub to 1.5 m high, deciduous, perennial. Indumentum of simple trichomes, mainly glabrous. Stipules multifid, 1–3 mm long, eglandular. Leaves petiolate, peltate; petiole 50–170 mm long; lamina 3–5-palmatifid, 90–220 mm long, 70–250 mm wide; base lobate to rounded; margins entire, eglandular; lobe tips acute to obtuse. Male flowers 6–7 mm long, 6–7 mm diam.; pedicels 2.5–4 mm long; sepals elliptic-ovate, c. 1 mm long; petals fused into tube, lobes elliptic, 4–4.5 mm long. Female flowers 5–6 mm long, 3–3.5 mm diam.; pedicels 2–3 mm long; sepals elliptic-ovate, 1.5–2.3 mm long; petals obovate, 6–7.5 mm long; ovary 2.5–3 mm diam.; styles 1.5–2 mm long, bifid. Fruit ellipsoid, 15–17 mm long, 14–16 mm diam.
Female flowers: pedicels 1–2 mm long, stout; calyx lobes 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, ovate to triangular-ovate, obtuse, entire; petals 6–7 mm long; disk glands free, flattened, ± truncate; ovary 2–3 × 2 mm, ellipsoid; styles 1.5 mm long, united at the base, stigmas capitate, 2-lobed.
Male flowers: pedicels 1–2 mm long; calyx 1.5 mm long; calyx lobes 0.5 × 1 mm, transversely ovate, emarginate, entire; petals 5–6 × 2 mm, obovate-oblong, obtuse, scarlet; disk urceolate; stamens 6–8, 5 mm long, filaments connate at the base, anthers 2 mm long, orange.
Leaf blades 10–20 × 10–20 cm, peltate, 3–5-lobed, bright green above, paler beneath; the lobes broadly ovate to obovate, subacute, entire; the median lobe 8–12 × 6–11 cm, the laterals the same or slightly smaller.
Inflorescences 20–25 cm long, with a peduncle 17–22 cm long, densely corymbiform to subcapitate; bracts up to 2 mm long, triangular, subacute, subentire.
Fruit 1.4 × 1.3 cm when dried, ellipsoid-ovoid, 3-lobed, apically and basally truncate, septicidally and loculicidally dehiscent.
Seeds 1.2 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm, ellipsoid, triangular-convex in section, brown, with a small fluted caruncle.
A completely glabrous shrub up to 2 m tall; stem swollen at the base.
Stipules up to 5 mm long, branched, glandular, becoming indurated.
Stem up to 2 ft. high, much swollen at the base
Petioles 10–20 cm long.
Cultivated in our area.
Latex watery.
Flowers red
