Shrubs, 1.5–2.5 m tall; older branches glabrous; branches slender; young shoots puberulent and glandular. Petiole cylindric, 5–10 mm, sparsely tomentose; leaf blade thick, leathery, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–5 × 1–1.8 cm; base broadly cuneate or rounded; margin strongly revolute; apex acute; abaxial surface pale, with red punctate hair bases on veins; adaxial surface smooth, glabrous, midrib slightly raised abaxially, grooved adaxially; lateral veins 8–9-paired. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, 7–11-flowered; rachis stout, 10–25 mm, densely tomentose, eglandular. Pedicel 1.5–3.5 cm, glandular-hairy; calyx discoid; lobes 5, ca. 1 mm; sparsely hairy, glandular-ciliate; corolla open-cup-or saucer-shaped, white or pink with purple flecks, 2–3 cm, without nectar pouches; lobes 5, orbicular, ca. 1.3 × 1.5 cm, emarginate; stamens 10, unequal, 1–1.5 cm, filaments glabrous; ovary conoid, ca. 4 × 2 mm, 9-or 10-locular; style ca. 1.3 cm, glandular-hairy to tip. Capsule 18–2 × ca. 10 mm. Fl. May, fr. Oct.
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