Shrubs 1-2(-6) m tall. Stems 4-sided to obtusely 4-sided, furfuraceous stellate and sparsely puberulous-setose. Petiole 1-7.5 cm, densely furfuraceous stellate; leaf blade ovate, narrowly elliptic-ovate, or suborbicular, 12-24(-32) × ca. 15.5 cm, stiffly papery, abaxially usually furfuraceous stellate on veins, adaxially furfuraceous squamose or glabrescent, secondary veins 3 on each side of midvein, base rounded to subcordate, margin denticulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, a cymose panicle, 20-30 × ca. 10 cm or wider, furfuraceous stellate, with 2 leaflike bracts at base. Bractlets and bracteole lanceolate to subulate, 1-3 mm. Hypanthium narrowly funnelform, ca. 8 mm, longitudinally 8-ribbed, with dense stellate trichomes when young but glabrescent. Calyx lobes shortly triangular-ovate, ca. 1 mm, apex acute and apiculate. Petals pink, red, or dark red, ovate, ca. 7 mm. Longer stamens with connective swollen but not spured. Shorter with connective shortly spurred. Capsule obovoid, ca. 8 × 6 mm; hypanthium narrowly funnelform. Fl. Jul-Sep(-Oct), fr. Jan-Mar(-May).
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A shrub. It grows about 3 m high. It has spreading branches. The branches are covered with star shaped hairs. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are 15-25 cm long. The leaves are oval and with shallow rounded teeth. Leaves are round at the base. The flowers are small and deep pink. The fruit is a capsule. It is oval but cut off at the tip.
It is a subtropical plant. In Nepal they grow between 1300-2000 m altitude. In Northeastern India it grows from 800-2,200 m above sea level. They are common in wet ravines. It grows on stream banks and in moist places.
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