A glabrate, 1-5 m tall shrub. Leaves 4-8 cm long, 2-5 cm broad, lobed or not, ovate to broadly ovate, serrate-dentate; stipules 5-10 mm long, linear; petiole 0.5-2 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect or subpendulous, single or double; pedicel 1-8 cm long, articulate near the top. Epicalyx segments 6-9, 5-15 mm long, linear or linear-lanceolate. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 1.5-2.5 cm long; lobes 5-15 mm long, triangular to lanceolate. Corolla 4-9 cm across, pinkish to red, with or without dark centre, petals obovate or oblong-obovate, 5-9 cm long, 3-7 cm broad, obtuse or irregularly lobed at apex. Staminal column exserted, antherifierous near the apex. Capsule c. 2 cm long, glabrous, ovoid.