Leaf: alternate to clustered, 7--15 mm, ovate to wedge-shaped, deeply 3--7-pinnately lobed, lobes linear, obtuse, densely hairy adaxially, rusty-scaly abaxially, margins rolled under; stipules lanceolate, deciduous.
Flower: pedicel 8--25 mm; calyx 4--6 mm, +- puberulent, lobes equal, 0.5--2 mm, obtuse to rounded, densely ciliate, tip +- small-pointed; corolla rose to pink, upper two lobes much reduced, tube-throat 7--10 mm, limb 5--9 mm wide.
Leaf: generally alternate (+- opposite), sessile, 9--40 mm, 1--15 mm wide, elliptic, lance-linear, or oblong, entire, base acute to attenuate, tip acute or obtuse, faces puberulent to +- densely covered with long, crooked hairs, these occasionally mixed with gland-tipped hairs, veins obscure.
Fruit: cup 10--25 10--25 10--252 mm deep, generally bowidehaped, rim +- spreading, scales not tubercled, densely hairy; nut 20--30 mm, +- ovoid, distally obtuse to +- rounded, shell densely woolly inside; mature in year 2. Ecology: Uncommon.
Leaf: opposite or alternate, petiole 1--2.5 mm, blade 3--15 mm, 4--14 mm wide, ovate, crenate to serrate, base obtuse to truncate, tip obtuse, faces slightly tomentose to densely puberulent.
Leaf: 5--8 cm; petiole 5--18 mm; blade oblong to oblong-ovate, adaxially +- finely tomentose, glabrous in age, dark green, abaxially densely tomentose, sparsely tomentose in age, dull, gray-green, tip acute to obtuse, margin entire to crenate or mucro-toothed.
Flower: perianth bell-shaped, parts often dark-spotted near base; sepals 20--30 20--30 20--30e; petals 30--50 mm, wedge-shaped to obovate, pointed at tip, yelanceolateange-red, spetalsy club-like-hairy near nectary, nectary round, depressed, encircled by fringed membrane, densely simple- or forked-hairy; filaments 4--5 mm, anthers oblong-ovate, obtuse, generally purple.
Leaf: densely stellate-tomentose; petioles to 10 cm; blade generally to 15 cm, lower 3--5-lobed, acute to obtuse, upper oblong-ovate to lanceolate, often +- 3-lobed.
"So obtuse," Spencer said.
