Spreading shrub up to 4 m high, occaÂsionally scandent, sometimes forming fairly large thickets; young branchlets ± densely brown-pubescent or -puberulous. Leaves: petiole 0,8 - 1,5 cm long; blade often wider than long, (1,5) 2,5 - 5 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, bilobed apically for about one-quarter of the length of the leaf, appressed-puberulous on lower surface; lobes obliquely obovate to ovate. Stipules 1,5-3 mm long. Inflorescence up to 10-flowered, terminal, axillary or leaf-opposed. Flower-buds: upper part (i.e. sepals) linear to linear-lanceolate in outline, 1-3,4 cm long before an thesis; hypanthium 1,2-3 cm long, ± densely brown-puberulous, finely longitudinally sulcate. Petals pinkish-red to brick-red or sometimes ± scarlet, 3-4 cm long, lamina abruptly widened above from a conspicuous basal claw which is almost as long as the lamina, glabrous above, the midrib pubescent outside and with small glands or scales. Stamens : 3 fertile, the filaments 2,5-3,5 cm long; staminodes 7, free, red, 3-6 mm long. Style 4-7 mm long. Pod linear-oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, 5-14 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, on a woody stipe 2-3 cm long, dehiscent, woody, puberuÂlous when young but sometimes becoming glabrescent with age. Seeds chestnut-brown, irregularly oblong to obovate, 1-1,6 cm long, 0,6-1 cm wide.
