Herb, suffrutex or shrub, the stem erect, to 1.5 m high, the branchlets very minutely tomentellous, the hairs whitish, simple (and glandular?) or stellate, and with scattered, long, stipitate, stellate hairs. Leaves short-(upper ones) to long-petiolate (lower ones), the petiole up to 8 cm long, covered with the same indu-mentum as the branchlets, the stipules subulate-filiform, up to 10 mm long, at length caducous; blade ovate to broadly ovate, deeply cordate and with the basal lobes often overlapping at the base, long-acuminate at the apex, the acumen blunt or acute, entire-margined, up to 12 cm long and 8 cm broad, gradually smaller toward the apex, membranous-chartaceous, strongly discolorous, velvety on both sides, 7-to 9-palminerved, the upper surface pale green (when dry) and minutely stellate-tomentellous, becoming glabrescent, the lower surface paler, densely whitish-stellate-tomentellous and with the venation reticulate and prominulous. Flowers usually in lax, terminal, mostly leafless, paniculiform inflorescences, the pedicels slender, articulated above the middle, 0.5-2.5 cm long, to 3.5 cm long in fruit, densely and minutely glandular-puberulus; cal-x campanulate, 3-4 mm long, minutely tomentellous with simple and stellate hairs, the lobes deltoid, acute, ca 1-1.5 cm long and broad at the base; petals obovate, ca 5 mm long and 2.5 mm broad, yellow, the claw minutely ciliolate; androecium ca 4 mm long, the staminal tube ca 2 mm long, minutely hyaline-hirtellous. Fruit turbinatel, 5-lobed, constricted below the middle, the mericarps (3-4)5, 5.5-7.5 mm long, rigid-char-taceous, minutely puberulus, apiculate, the apiculum to 1 mm long; seeds angulate-subglobose, ca 2 mm in diam, minutely whitish-puberulus but whitish-pilose around the hilum.
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