sericeous

Stems erect or decumbent, frequently woody at base, not branched or short branched above, densely appressed white sericeous.

Sepals broadly ovate to suborbicular, both surfaces densely gray sericeous, apex rounded; ovary and styles pilose.

Flowering stems spreading, together with petioles, both surfaces of leaflets, and sepals sericeous.

Shrubs scandent. Stems terete; axial parts silvery sericeous when young, later yellowish or glabrescent.

epicalyx segments long elliptic, slightly shorter or longer than sepals, abaxially sparsely sericeous-strigose, apex rounded or acute.

leaf blade surfaces sericeous to hirsute or woolly, often glabrescent, base attenuate to rounded.

Branches erect, turning purple-red, terete, slender, grayish sericeous when young.

Annual branches densely light yellow-brown or light reddish pilose, or subglabrous. Leaves spreading sericeous.

Fruit purplish black when mature, globose, ca. 2 cm in diam. , densely sericeous. Seeds brown, compressed reniform, shiny.

Terminal bud yellow sericeous; sepals outside glabrous.

Leaf blade adaxially densely grayish sericeous when young; ovary narrowly ovoid-conic, apex sericeous.

Seeds pale yellowish gray, orbicular, ca. 7 mm, covered with very fine sericeous hairs.

terminal buds large, densely white sericeous.

Seeds black-brown, ca. 4 mm, hilum with a tuft of long sericeous hairs.

Stems densely long sericeous.

many-seeded. Seeds orbicular, elliptic, or oblong, flat, 2--3 cm, with densely pale brown-gray sericeous hairs.

Current year branchlets white pubescent; leaf blade 5-14 cm; sepals outside glabrous or sparsely pubescent, inside densely sericeous.

leaf buds small, white sericeous.

Seeds pale yellowish gray, orbicular, flat, 1--1. 8 cm in diam. , covered with extremely fine sericeous hairs.

terminal buds long conic, ca. 8 mm, yellowish brown sericeous.

Leaves abaxially yellow-brown sericeous, not papillate, hairs dense and long on veins.

Winter buds sericeous.

Leaf blade papery, apex retuse, sometimes midrib forked at apex, style 0. 7-1 mm, densely yellowish brown sericeous.

style ca. 1 cm, simple, densely sericeous.

Calyx pale red, slightly split on 1 side, sericeous, apex 2-toothed.

6 (5) Leaflets densely white sericeous on both surfaces.

Petals white, suborbicular, ca. 2. 5 cm, outside basally sericeous.

Leaf blade papery, apex retuse; midrib sometimes forked into 2 at apex. Style 0. 7-1 mm, densely yellowish brown sericeous.

coma white sericeous, ca. 3 cm.

4 (3) Radical leaves 3-foliolate, or terminal leaflets pseudopinnately parted, abaxially white sericeous.

Petiole 1. 5-2 cm; peduncle densely pubescent; petals abaxially sericeous.

Ovary ellipsoid, sessile or with a short stipe, apex sericeous;

rachis and pedicels densely yellow or yellowish white sericeous-villous;

Branchlets brown turning gray-brown or gray-red when old, subterete, sericeous-villous initially, later glabrescent;

tube exterior densely white sericeous;

Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm, uniformly densely grayish white sericeous;

Ovary conic, densely ferruginous sericeous, 5-loculed with many ovules per locule;

Corolla white; tube short and wide, ca. 5 mm, sericeous-villous;

Corolla white, broadly funnelform, ca. 2. 8 cm, silvery sericeous outside;

tube cylindric or narrowly funnel-shaped, 10-14 mm, exterior sericeous;

Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 3 mm, apex white sericeous;

tube curved-cylindric, 10-15 mm, slender, exterior sericeous;

Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 3. 5 mm, apex fascicled white sericeous;

tube cylindric, 6-7 mm, exterior sparsely sericeous;

tube cylindric, 6-7[-? 15] mm, slender, exterior sparsely sericeous;

tube cylindric, 2. 2-3 mm, slender, exterior glabrous or sparsely sericeous;

Petiole 2-6 cm, slender, swollen at end, golden sericeous at first, glabrescent;