Shrubs, to 4 m, not suckering from roots. Leaves: petiole 3-14 mm; blade with (6-)7-8(-9) secondary veins, broadly elliptic, ovate, obovate, or orbiculate, 3-7.5 (-11.7) × 2.5-6.5(-8.8) cm, margins entire, longest arms of abaxial hairs 0.1-0.4 mm. False-terminal inflorescences 2-6-flowered or solitary flower, 2-5 cm; axillary flowers absent. Pedicels 4-9 mm, 0.5-1.4 times as long as calyx. Flowers: calyx 4-7 × 5-7 mm; corolla 16-26 mm, tube 5-6 mm, lobes 5-7(-8), imbricate in bud, slightly reflexed, elliptic, 10-21 × 4-7 mm; filaments connate 2-7 mm beyond adnation to corolla. Capsules globose, 11-15 × 10-12 mm (broader when 2-3-seeded), tawny or fulvous stellate-pubescent, at least when mature, dehiscent nearly or completely to proximal end, broadly exposing seed(s); fruit wall 0.3-0.5 mm thick. 2n = 16.
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