Shrubs. Stems densely hairy, prickles few, short. Leaves broadly ovate in oudine, 5-7.5 by 5-6.5 cm, distinctly 3-lobed, base cordate, margins unevenly serrate, apex acute, firmly herbaceous, nervation palmate with 5 main nerves, venation reticulate, rather densely hairy above, lower surface with a dense woolly felt of short, thin, curly hairs, and with many thicker, straight, long hairs, distinctly two-coloured. Petiole 1.5-2.5 cm long. Stipules rather persistent, linear, 14-17 by 2 mm, with 2-3 narrow lobes, hairy outside. Inflorescence a leafy thyrse, c. 15 cm long, with c. 8 di-chasial to monochasial laterals of c. 4 cm long, with up to 5 flowers. Bracts c. 10 mm long, deeply incised, bracteoles 2, on the pedicel, persistent as are the bracts. Pedicels up to 1.5 cm long, densely hairy as are the other axes. Flowers bisexual, flower buds ovoid. Hypanthium cup-shaped, 7 mm across, short-woolly and with longer hairs outside. Sepals triangular, 6.5-8 by 2.5-4 mm, outer ones usually with up to 3 pairs of teeth (up to 1 mm long), inner ones entire, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals persistent, ± orbicular, distinctly clawed, 5.5-7 by 3-5 mm, white. Stamens 85-125, filaments up to 5 mm, glabrous, anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Pistils c. 60, ovaries glabrous or with few hairs on top, on elevated, densely hairy torus, style up to 6 mm long. Collective fruits globular, c. 1 cm diam., sepals closing after anthesis. Fruits c. 4 mm long (dry), exocarp glabrous or with long hairs on backside in the upper half, mesocarp thick and leathery when dry, probably thick and juicy when living.
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