Shrubs low, to 50 cm tall, with creeping branches. Branchlets brown to grayish brown, terete, tomentose, yellowish brown bristly or with intermixed stipitate glands. Leaves simple; petiole 1.5–3 cm, tomentose, bristly, or stipitate glandular; stipules persistent, free, ovate-lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 1–1.6 cm × 5–9 mm, abaxially tomentose, bristly, shallowly pinnate-laciniate; blade ovate to suborbicular, 3–6 × 3–5.5 cm, veins raised abaxially, abaxially densely yellowish white tomentose, yellowish brown bristly along veins, adaxially glabrous, base cordate, margin 3–5-lobed, sharply doubly serrulate, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal, short subracemes, 3–5 cm, several flowered, or flowers solitary in leaf axils; bracts ovate-lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 0.8–1.5 cm × 4–8 mm, tomentose when young, bristly, laciniate. Pedicel 5–10 mm. Flowers 1–2 cm in diam. Calyx abaxially tomentose, bristly or stipitate glandular; sepals erect at anthesis, later enclosing fruit, lanceolate, 0.9–1.4 cm × 3.5–6 mm, apex acuminate, outer sepals usually laciniate apically, inner sepals entire. Petals white, broadly ovate to oblong, 7–11 × 5–8 mm, abaxially sparsely tomentose, base shortly clawed. Stamens many, shorter than petals; filaments broad, complanate. Pistils slightly shorter than or nearly as long as stamens; ovary glabrous. Aggregate fruit subglobose, glabrous, with many drupelets and persistent styles; pyrenes slightly rugose. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.
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