Herb, suffrutex or shrub up to 1.5 m high, the stem simple or rather freely branched, covered with short stellate-hairs or rather hirsute with simple and stellate hairs especially when young. Leaves with the pedicel 0.5-6 cm long, stellate-puberulus or hirsute, the stipules linear-subulate; blade polymorphic, obovate to narrowly obovate or elliptic to oblong-elliptic, cuneate, obtuse or slightly cordate to narrowly subcordate at the base, acute or short-to long-acuminate at the apex, coarsely to rather finely serrate or dentate at the margin, up to 17 cm long and 8 cm wide, 3(-5)-palminerved, rough or not, stellate-puberulus or hirsute with simple and stellate hairs on both sides, the indumentum denser beneath, the venation prominent on the lower surface. Flowers in few-flowered corymbiform or loosely capituliform inflorescences, the peduncles terminal or axillary, generally elongate and up to 15 cm long, stellate-puberulus or hirsute, rarely flowers axillary and solitary, the pedicel up to 15 mm long, stellate-puberulus or hirsute, the bracts entire or 3-lobed almost to, the base, linear-lanceolate; epicalyx of 7-11 bractlets, these united at the base for maximum 1/4 of their length, adnate to the base of the calyx, linear-lanceolate, acute, 5.5-11 mm long and 0.5-1.5 rnm wide, stellate-puberulus and/or hirsute with simple and/or stellate hairs; calyx campanulate, lobed to about the middle or the lobes shorter, 3-5 mm long, stellate-puberulus and generally with few,-hirsute hairs along the margin, the lobes deltoid, acute; petals obovate-cuneate to oblong-obovate, asymmetrical, rounded to somewhat undulate at the apex, 8-13 mm long and 3-6 mm wide, rose or white; staminal tube slightly to much shorter than the corolla, 5-7 mm long, 5-lobulate at the apex, antheriferous below the apex, the filaments few, ca 0.7-0.8 mm long; style branches exceeding slightly the staminal tube, the stigmas capitate and densely fimbrillate. Mericarps triquetrous-obovoid, 5-7 mm long and ca 2.5-3.5 mm wide, rigid-chartaceous, the back convex, smooth to lightly reticulate, glabrous or sparsely and minutely papillate near the apex and with 3 prominulous ribs, 1 central and 2 marginal, each bearing a retrorsely hispidulous awn, the central awn apical and 3.5-6 mm long, the marginal below the apex and 2.5-5 mm long; seeds trigonous, 4-5 mm long, glabrous.
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