Shrubs or small trees, 2–8 m tall; young shoots densely fulvous-to gray-tomentose. Petiole 10–20 mm, densely gray to fulvous fasciculate-tomentose, granular; leaf blade leathery, oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or obovate, 8–20 × 3–7.5 cm; base cuneate or subrounded; apex obtuse or shortly acuminate, apiculate; abaxial surface with indumentum 2-layered, upper layer fawn to fulvous or rust-red, granular, hairs fasciculate branched, lower layer gray, hairs short stellate. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, 10–20-flowered; rachis ca. 10 mm. Pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm, glabrous; calyx lobes 5, 1–2 mm, acute or subrounded, glabrous; corolla funnel-campanulate, white to pink or rose, with crimson basal blotch and red spots on upper lobes, 3–4 cm, lobes 5; stamens 10, unequal, filaments pubescent at base; ovary and style glabrous; style slightly shorter than corolla, glabrous; stigma capitate. Capsule narrowly elongate-cylindric, curved at maturity, 25–40 × 3–4 mm. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Jul–Oct.
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