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Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, up to 1-1.5 m in height, erect and highly ramose. Stems with brown-greyish bark, very dark in older specimens. Branchlets whitish, \u00b1 villous. Leaves small, 0.6-4.5 \u00d7 0.4-2 cm, opposite, with winged petiole 2.5-15 mm long, ovate or ovate-oblong, with the margin generally slightly undulate, from dark green to ashy green, densely covered with stellate hairs and with some simple hairs \u2014in some subspecies glandular hairs are frequent\u2014. Flowers 3-5 cm in diameter, with pedicels 0.7-4 cm, usually grouped in terminal cymes, but sometimes some are solitary. Sepals 5, \u00b1 equal, villous, with stellate hairs and more rarely simple or glandular hairs. Petals 5, 17-20 \u00d7 15-18 mm, pinkish-purplish with yellow base, \u00b1 twice as long as the sepals. Fruit an ovoid-acute capsule, 0.7-1 cm long, \u00b1 villous. 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