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A shrubby, much-branched plant, thickly beset with fine down. Leaves stalked, cordate, broadly ovate, with long points, serrate, palmately 5–7-nerved, paler beneath. Flowers numerous, in large, terminal, much-branched, ultimately leafless clusters. Pedicels jointed. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, 5-cleft; segments acute, about one-third the length of the purplish reflected corolla. Fruit subglobose, umbilicate, downy, longer than the persistent calyx. Carpels about 20, obtuse, reniform, 1-seeded, ultimately seceding from the axis.