Abstract
Shrub 2-3 m in height. Branches dark grey to purplish, pubescent when young, becoming glabrous. Stipules linear, c. 4 mm long, pubescent, caducous. Leaves shortly petiolate; petiole densely pubescent; lamina elliptic, 1 5-4-5 x 1-2 3 cm, acute at the apex, rounded, cuneate or sometimes truncate at the base, either green and ? concolorous or discolorous, green above and whitish-tomentose below; margin strongly crenate-serrate. Inflorescence axillary, consisting of solitary 3-flowered cymes; peduncles 4-9 mm long; pedicels 5-12 mm long. Flowers bisexual, c. 12-18 mm diam. Sepals narrowly elliptic, cucullate, densely grey-pubescent outside, glabrous and yellow inside, 6-10 x 2-5-3 mm. Petals yellow, obovate, 5-8 x 2-3 mm, with or without a nectariferous claw. Androgynophore much reduced, to about 1 -5 mm long. Ovary 2-locular with 4 ovules per loculus; style c. 5-6 mm long; stigma with 4 broad lobes. Fruit 2-lobed (or 1-lobed by abortion), each lobe c. 5-6 x 5-6 mm, sparsely stellate-hairy; pyrenes pea-shaped with a rugose surface. (Fig. 1, Map 1).
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