Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, up to 0.8(1) m in height, erect and very ramose. Stems with brown-greyish bark, very dark in older specimens. Branchlets densely covered with 3 types of hairs, stellate, simple and long, and glanduliferous and short. Leaves small (0.5-2 \u00d7 0.2-1 cm), opposite, with 2 different types (heterophyllous): upper leaves sessile, lower leaves with winged petiole, traversed by 3 veins and amplexicaul, up to 3 mm long, elliptic or ovate-rhomboid, with margin slightly undulate and slightly revolute, pinnate venation clearly visible on the underside between a dense tomentum of small stellate hairs. Flowers (3-5 cm in diameter) with pedicels 5-10 mm long, in terminal cymes of 1-3. Sepals 5, \u00b1 equal, hairy (sericeous). Petals 5, 12-25 \u00d7 10-25 mm, pinkish-purplish with yellow base, \u00b1 twice as long as the sepals. Fruit an ovoid capsule 7-9 mm, villous, dehiscent in 5 valves. Seeds numerous and minute, papillose and brownish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12966","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n