Family: Malvaceae

Description: 

Trees, 12-15 m high; bark grey or light-brown smooth or slightly fissured. Leaves simple, alternate, orbicular or ovate, base cordate or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire or dentate, coriaceous, with peltate scales above, glabrescent or stellate-tomentose beneath. Flowers bisexual, yellow, showy, solitary or in cymes, axillary or terminal. Calyx cupular, minutely 5 toothed. Corolla light yellow with dark purple centre, fading to purplish-pink, broadly campanulate; petals 5, obliquely obovate, narrowed and fleshy at base, rounded at apex, densely scaly outside, ciliate at base, twisted. Staminal tube 15-25 mm long, 5-toothed at apex; filaments ascending; anthers reniform. Capsule, globose, indehiscent.