Multi-stemmed shrub, 1–3 m. tall; bark grey, smooth, slightly fissured.. Branchlets yellowish velutinous at tips, older parts glabrescent.. Leaves deciduous; blade broadly obovate, or oblong-, more rarely subovate-elliptic, apex shortly or very shortly acuminate, base broadly attenuate to rounded, or sometimes subcordate, recent ones softly yellowish tomentulose on both faces, mature ones thin to chartaceous and ± glabrescent, still hairy mainly on midrib and nerves on both faces with age, subsinuate-serrate to-dentate with veins protruding beyond the edge, 5.5–8(–12) cm. long, 3–6(–8) cm. broad; nerves 8–9(–10) pairs, rather straight from the midrib, prominent beneath, reticulation lax, raised beneath; petiole tomentellous, 1–2 cm. long, 1.5–2 mm. in diameter; stipules persistent at least at the upper leaves, firm, lanceolate-linear, pubescent, 5–7(–15) mm. long, 2(–3) mm. broad at base.. Inflorescences appearing with the new leaves, reduced to 1 or 2 flowers, yellowish tomentellous; peduncle rather slender, 1.5–2 cm. long; pedicels articulate at the middle, 1.5–5 cm. long.. Sepals broadly elliptic, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, 7–8 mm. long, 5–6 mm. broad.. Petals 8–10(–12), oblong-spathulate, shortly hairy outside, subglabrous inside, 12–14 mm. long, 5–6 mm. broad.. Filaments glabrous, 2–2.5 mm. long; anthers pubescent, 3 .5–4 mm. long.. Ovary tomentose and muriculate; style hairy, ± 3 mm. long.. Capsule ellipsoid-suborbicular, yellowish to orange, 1.2–1.6 cm. long, 0.8–1 cm. in diameter, covered with numerous conical obtuse emergences ± 1 mm. long, splitting into (2–)3(–4) valves.. Seeds 1 or 2, blackish, glossy, laxly hairy, 5–7 mm. long, 4–5 mm. broad.
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