Shrub 1-3 m. tall; younger stems, petioles, and axis of the inflorescence densely hirsute with straight or curved, distinctly retrorse or retrorsely outwardly curved, simple bristles; petioles 2-5 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong or oblong, 1-2 dm. long, 5-12 cm. wide, acuminate, denticulate and strongly ciliate, broadly obtuse to rounded at base, commonly 7-nerved, more or less hirsute on both sides, especially on the nerves beneath; panicles 1-2 dm. long, the branches becoming widely divaricate and crooked, with secund 5-merous flowers; hypan-thium subglobose, densely hirsute; sepals minute, depressed-triangular, the exterior teeth subulate, about 1 mm. long; petals white, 2.5-3 mm. long.
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