Shrubs, bushy, sometimes straggling, from about 1-3-5 m tall, ultimate twigs terete to subcompressed, angled or fluted, densely tomentose to glabrous in parts, the scaly stellate tomentum rubbing off easily, internodes usually short, leaf- and stipule-bases prominent. Leaves discolorous, sinuate-lobed with the lobes again crenate, undulate, oblong to ovate-oblong, narrowing slightly to a broad apex and broadly cuneate to rounded or cordate at base, 1 -2-6 cm long, 0-2-2-6 cm broad, upper surface tomentulose with short hairs, rugose, lower surface rusty scaly tomentose, reticulate; petiole 0-2-1-3 cm long, scaly tomentose; stipule a prominent interpetiolar ridge. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of cymes; cymes congested, the ultimate forming subglobose heads of 9 or more flowers. Calyx about 2/3 as long as the corolla more or less 2 mm long, stellate tomentose without, glabrous within, lobed to just below the middle. Corolla "yellowish" to "bright yellow", about 3 mm long, lobed to just below the middle, stellate-tomentose where exposed between calyx lobes, but glabrescent towards the margins of the lobes without, glabrous within. Stamens with the free portions of the filaments about 1-5 mm long, exserted; anthers yellow, connective glabrous, cells diverging at base but not confluent at apex. Ovary stellate-tomentose, more or less rounded at top; style glabrescent, from about 0-5-1 mm long, eventually exserted; stigma terminal, conical, exserted. Capsule tomentose, tomentum rubbing off in parts, exserted by about a third from the persistent calyx (and for some time corolla persistent too). Fig. 23: 3.
