Leaf blades (1.2–)1.5–3(–4.5) × (0.5–)0.7–1.3(–1.9) cm, herbaceous, margins entire, sometimes ± revolute, abaxial surface whitish gray, sericeous initially, but hairs usually becoming erect and chaotic, sometimes remaining appressed, straight or slightly curved, 0.3–0.7 mm, hairs longer (0.7–1.1 mm) and more common along main veins, adaxial surface brown (cuticle thin, papillate) or gray-green (cuticle thick, smooth), glabrous or sparsely to moderately strigose, hairs usually loosely appressed to spreading, rarely erect, 0.3–0.6 mm. Inflorescences 1(–3)-flowered. Flowers 23–35(–40) mm diam.; hypanthium and sepal abaxial surfaces ± densely white sericeous-strigose and villous-lanate, hairs straight and curved to loosely coiled, and with understory of slender curved-crisped hairs, hairs usually completely obscuring epidermis except sometimes in fruit; sepals 4.5–7 mm; petals 10–16(–21) × 7–11(–15) mm; stamens (35–)49–64. Capsules globose to oblong-globose, 6–9.5 × 6–9.5 mm.
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