Shrub to 4 m. tall, the stems, petioles, leaves, inflorescence, and hypanthia densely hirsute with simple red-purple bristles up to 3 mm. long; petioles 5-20 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, up to 15 cm. long, two-fifths to half as wide, acuminate, obscurely denticulate or crenulate, obtuse to rounded at base, 5-pli-nerved or sometimes merely 5-nerved; panicles 2-5 cm. long, congested; hypanthium cup-shaped, about 2.5 mm. long to the torus; calyx-tube prolonged about 0.5 mm.; calyx-lobes depressed-triangular, about 0.5 mm. long from the sinus; exterior teeth stoutly subulate, hirsute, about 2 mm. long; petals pink, about 3 mm. long; stamens isomorphic; anthers oblong, blunt, 4-celled; stigma truncate.
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