Shrub 1-2.5 m high, the stem slender, branched, more or less densely puberulus with stiff, tawny, stellate hairs. Leaves short-petiolate, the petiole stout, up to 12 mm long, densely stellate-hirtellous, the stipules linear-subulate; blade asymmetri-cal, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, oblong-ovate or sometimes obovate, oblique at the base, gradually long-acuminate at the apex, serrulate to denticulate at the margin, up to 20 cm long and 7.5 cm wide, 3-to 4-to 5-palminerved, scabridulous or not, more or less densely stellate-hirtellous on both sides, the indumentum always denser on the lower surface, the venation prominulous beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous (always?), long-pedicellate, the pedicel slender, generally slightly geniculate above the middle, 3-5 cm long, densely stellate-hirtellous, the fruiting pedicel up to 10 cm long; epicalyx of 8-10 bractlets, these nearly distinct, narrowly ovate, acute, 5.5-7 mm long and 0.8-1.5 mm wide, more or less densely stellate-hirtellous; calyx campanulate, lobed to about the middle, 6.5-8 mm long, more or less densely stellate-hirtellous, the lobes deltoid, acute, 3.5-4 mm long and 2-3.5 mm wide at the base; petals oibovate-cuneate, asymmetrical, rounded-truncate to rounded-crenulate--at the apex, 14-16 mm long and 9.5-11 mm wide, pink; staminal tube 5-dissected at the apex, 7.5-9 mm long, antheriferous on the upper 1/3, the filaments maximum 1 mm long; style branches exceeding the staminal tube, the stigmas capitellate and minutely fimbrillate. Mericarps broadly triquetrous-obovoid, ca 8 mm long and 5.5 mm wide, rigid-chartaceous, the back convex, reticu-late, glabrous and with 3 prominulous, longitudinal ribs, 1 central and 2 marginal, each bearing a stout, retrorsely hispidulous awn, the central awn apical and 7-8 mm long, the marginal markedly below the apex, shorter or not and 5.5-8 mm long; seeds trigonous-reniform, 6-7 mm long, glabrous.
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