Small tree or shrub up to 6 m. tall; branchlets greyish-brown, appressed-peltate-lepidote when young. Leaf-lamina 2–8·5 × 2·5–8·5 cm., suborbicular, broadly ovate or cordate-acuminate, sparsely lepidote or glabrous above, closely appressed-peltate-lepidote below, eventually glabrescent, apex acuminate acute or rounded, margins entire, base usually cordate sometimes truncate or slightly rounded 5–7-nerved; petiole 1–6 cm. long, lepidote; stipules not seen. Flowers 4–4·5 cm. in diam., yellow; peduncle very short, 1–3-flowered; pedicels 5–8 mm. long, lepidote. Epicalyx of 3 bracts; bracts c. 2·5 mm. long, linear, lepidote, caducous. Calyx 8–10 × 4–5 mm., cupuliform, with 5 minute teeth, sericeous within. Petals 5, 4·5 × 3·5–4 cm., obliquely obovate, stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube 20–25 mm. long; free parts of filaments 4–5 mm. long, sometimes partly connate in pairs. Style not branched, clavate. Fruit 12 × 15 mm., depressed-globose, red, glabrous. Seeds 12–13 × 7–8 mm., trigonous, silky-tomentose.
