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Shrub or tree to 5 m high; young branchlets minutely puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 0,7-1,5 cm long; blade (1) 1,5-4 cm long, 1,4-4 cm wide, bilobed apically to about two-thirds of the way down, minutely appressea puoeruious on lower surface; lobes ± semicircular. Stipules 2-4 mm long, ± 1 mm wide. Inflorescence 2-6-flowered, mostly terminal. Flower-buds: upper part (i.e. sepals) linear to linear-lanceolate in outline, 1,3-2,8 cm long before anthesis; hypanthium 0,9-1,8 cm long, finely longitudinally sulcate. Petals white, 2,8-4,8 cm long, 0,8-1,4 cm wide, tapering basally, margins slightly crisped, glabrous above, the midrib slightly pubescent outside and with small glands or scales. Stamens: 10 fertile; filaments 1,5-3 cm long. Style 0,6-1,5 cm long, pubescent; stigma ± 1 mm in diameter. Pod linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 5-14cm long, 1-2cm wide, woody, dehiscent. Seeds light brown, oval to