Shrubs, 20 dm. Stems spreading, ?brown becoming grayish black?, glabrous or finely stellate-hairy. Leaves: stipules oblong to elliptic or obovate, 6 × 2.5 mm, ?base broad, apex rounded and erose to apiculate or acute?; petiole 1–2.5(–3) cm; blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, 2–6 × 2.5–6 cm, sometimes wider than long, base truncate to slightly cordate, 3-or 5-lobed, ?clefts between lobes may be shallow to deep?, margins doubly crenate to doubly serrate, apex rounded, obtuse, or acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy (more so on abaxial veins). Inflorescences 15–20-flowered, fairly dense, hemispheric racemes, 2.5–4 cm diam.; bracts narrowly obovate to spatulate, 4.5 mm, apex erose or acute. Pedicels 8–15 mm, densely stellate-hairy. Flowers 5–8 mm diam.; hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–2 mm, densely stellate-hairy; sepals triangular to ovate, 2–3 mm, apex gland-tipped, surfaces densely stellate-hairy; petals white, broadly elliptic to obovate or orbiculate, 4.5 × 4.5 mm; stamens ?ca. 30?, equal to or slightly exceeding petals; carpels 2(3), connate at least 1/2 their lengths, densely stellate-hairy. Follicles 2(3), ovoid, flattened, 2.5 mm (lengths not exceeding sepals), ?keeled apically?, densely stellate-hairy, ?hairs white?; styles 2.5–3 mm. Seeds 1 or 2, ?pyriform, 1.5 mm?.
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A shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The fruit are hairy with star shaped hairs. The fruit are follicles united for half their length.
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