A robust, branched herb. Stems several from the base and up to 2 cm diam. there, branched, up to 75 cm tall, green, fleshy, thickly clothed in long, coarse, white hairs, glabrescent. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, about 1 x 0,5 cm, membranous, whitish, apex acumiÂnate, margin fimbriate-ciliate. Leaves obliquely ovate, up to 10 X 8 cm, apex acute, base truncate or nearly so, margins irregularly crenate-serrate, not or scarcely lobed, green above, thinly villous, paler below, hairs nearly confined to the veins, petioles up to 9 cm long, fleshy, villous. Inflorescences in the upper leaf axils, peduncles up to about 5 cm long, usually shorter than the petiole. Flowers up to c. 8 mm across, pure white, tepals of 3 flowers 4, of ? flowers 5. Fruits 3-winged, rounded-oblong to cuneiform in outline, c. 2 cm across the broadest part of the wings, placentae split, appearing bifurcate in transverse section. Fig. 45: 2.