Shrubs, to 6 m, not suckering from roots. Leaves: petiole 6-20 mm; blade with 5-6 secondary veins, depressed-orbiculate or broadly ovate, 4.5-9(-12) × 4.2-9(-11.5) cm, margins entire, coarsely toothed, or 3-lobed, longest arms of abaxial hairs to 1 mm. False-terminal inflor-escences 2-7-flowered or solitary flower, 2-5 cm; axillary flowers absent. Pedicels 4-9 mm, 1.3-2.3 times as long as calyx. Flowers: calyx 3-5(-6) × 4.5-5.5 mm; corolla 12-21 mm, tube 3-4 mm, lobes 5-6, imbricate in bud, slightly reflexed, elliptic, 11-18 × 3-7 mm; filaments connate 1-6 mm beyond adnation to corolla. Capsules globose, 7-10 × 7-11 mm (broader when 2-3-seeded), grayish white stellate-pubescent, dehiscent nearly or completely to proximal end, broadly exposing seed(s); fruit wall 0.3-0.5 mm thick.
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