Shrub or vine, twigs arachnoid-puberulent with brownish stellate hairs, fistu-lose. Leaves ovate, ca. 15 cm long, basally rounded or obtuse, apically acute or acuminate, membranaceous, veins 3-4 on each side of the midvein, glabrescent and drying slightly darker above, tomentose beneath with stalked, slender-armed stelfae; petioles to 10 mm long. Inflorescence a several-flowered fascicle, the pedicels slender, ca. 14 mm long, conspicuously pubescent with stalked stellae, the peduncle obsolete but marked by a cicatrix from fallen pedicels. Flowers with the calyx tomentose but the tissue clearly visible beneath the pubescence, the cup ca. 5 mm across, shallow, the teeth 10 in 2 similar series, slender, elongate, 4-5 mm long; corolla white (von Wedel), 6-7 mm across in bud, finely tomentose, ca. 14 mm long in flower. Fruit not seen.
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