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Large climbing shrubs, deciduous. Branchlets reddish, with paler oblong lenticels, young branchlets white pubescent to brownish long strigose or densely ferruginous hispid-setose; pith whitish to brown, large, lamellate. Petiole white pubescent or brownish long strigose to densely ferruginous hispid-setose; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, broadly ovate to broadly obovate or suborbicular, ***7 cm, papery, abaxially whitish or brownish stellate-tomentose, adaxially usually glabrous, occasionally puberulous, especially more densely so on midvein and lateral veins, or densely scabrid-hispid throughout, midvein and lateral veins conspicuous abaxially, subconspicuous adaxially, lateral veins **8 pairs, furcate above middle, veinlets in parallel cross-bars, conspicuous abaxially, base rounded to truncate to cordatulate, margin setose-serrulate with teeth terminating tips of veinlets, apex truncate to emarginate to abruptly cuspidate or shortly acuminate. Inflorescences cymose, ***-flowered, white silky-tomentose or yellowish brown velutinous; pedicels 0.9?1.5 cm; bracts linear, ca. 1 mm. Flowers orange-yellow. Sepals (*-)5(*7), broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, ***0 mm, both surfaces densely yellowish tomentose. Petals (*-)5(*8), rarely with a second whorl of 2 smaller petals, broadly obovate, **2 cm, shortly clawed at base, rounded at apex. Filaments ***0 mm; anthers yellow, oblong, 1.**2 mm, sagittate at base or not, apex acute to rounded. Ovary globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., densely golden villous. Fruit subglobose to cylindric to obovoid or ellipsoidal, **6 cm, densely tomentose when young, glabrous when mature to densely hispid, with many brownish lenticels; persistent sepals reflexed. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep. Tall grassy thickets on low mountains, sparse secondary forests, mountain forests, thickets; *******0 m. Anhui, Chongqing, FujianGansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan(zone4)