Shrubs, 2–3 m tall; branchlets blackish gray; young branches densely velutinous, glabrescent; bud scales persistent. Petiole 5–17 mm, felted at first, soon glabrescent; leaf blade leathery, elliptic-oblong to obovate, (3–)3.5–7(–10) × (1.2–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute or mucronate; abaxial surface with indumentum 2-layered, densely felted, upper layer of indumentum detersile, lower layer stuck together; adaxial surface green, glabrous; midrib impressed adaxially. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, 4–7-flowered. Pedicel 0.5–1 cm, densely velutinous; calyx lobes 5–7, ca. 1 mm, undulate-triangular, velutinous; corolla campanulate, white to pink, upper lobes sometimes with red spots, 2.5–3 cm, lobes 5–7, suborbicular, 1–1.2 cm; stamens 10–13, 0.4–1.8 cm, filaments glabrous or pilose in lowest third; ovary conical, densely velutinous; style ca. 2.3 cm, glabrous, stigma capitate. Capsule not known. Fl. Apr.
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