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A small attractive semi-erect or scandent shrub (sometimes twining with ends of branches), up to 3 m. or more high; younger stems and inflorescences ± densely covered with somewhat stiff short hairs, older ones glabrescent. Leaves petiolate; lamina from a usually rounded rarely cuneate base ovate or broadly elliptic, rarely ovate-lanceolate, l.5–2.5(–7) x 0.9–l.8(–3) cm., obtuse or subacute, older ones ± densely pubescent (more so beneath); secondary nerves usually indistinctly visible; petiole 2–4(–6) mm. long, densely pubescent. Flowers in loose few-flowered corymbs terminating leafy annual branches, 1–1.25 cm. in diameter; bracts linear, 2–4 mm. long. Sepals ovate, ± 2 mm. long. Petals pure white, lilac or pinkish, oblong or oblong-ovate, ± spoon-shaped, 3.5–4 mm. long, shortly fimbriate at edges near base, clawed. Stamens with anthers 1–1.3 mm. long; filaments 3–5 mm. long. Styles ± 4.5–5.5 mm. long. Samara elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 1.8–2 × 0.9–1.1 cm. (in available material, but no fruits were fully developed); lateral wing distinctly retuse at apex; dorsal wing reduced. Fig. 4/1–6, p. 15.