Suffrutex or shrub 1-5 m high, the stem stellate-pubescent to stellate-velutlinous. Leaves long-petiolate, the petiole up to 15 cm long, stellate-puberulus to stellate-velutinous, the stipules narrowly ovate, long-acute, ca 20 mm long and 2-4 mm wide; blade broadly ovate, cordate at the base, acute to more or less acuminate at the apex, irregularly serrate-dentate at the margin, up to 23 cm long and 20 cm wide, 5-to 7-palminerved, stellate-puberulus to stellate-velutinous on both sides, the indumentum always denser on the lower surface, the nervation prominent be-neath. Flowers axillary, solitary or usually clustered toward the apex of the branch-lets and forming paniculate inflorescences, the pedicel articulated below the apex, up to 3.5 cm long, shortly stellate-velutinous; epicalyx bractlets 12-16, nearly dis-tinct, narrowly ovate, long-acute, (12-) 18-28 mm long and (1-) 2-3 mm wide, densely stellate-puberulus to stellate-velutinous; calyx cupuliform, shortly 5-apicu-late to broadly and shortly 5-dentate, ca (1-)2-4 mm long, thin, subglabrous to sparsely and minutely stellate-puberulus; petals narrowly obovate, 3-5 cm long and 1-1.2 cm wide, rose; staminal tube somewhat shorter than the corolla, lobulate, antheriferous on the upper part, the filaments ca 5-7 mm long; style longer than the staminal tube, the branches up to 7 mm long, the stigmas capitellate. Mericarps obovoid, more or less trigonous, obtuse and muticous at the apex, dorsally convex, ca 6 mm and 3 mm wide, with a mucilaginous coat, blackish, prominently reticulate-veined, glabrous; seeds 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous.
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