Trees or shrubs with stellate-hairy leaves. Leaves palmately 3-5-lobed. Flowers yellow or purplish with a dark centre. Epicalyx fused with the calyx and with 5-15 caducous teeth or lobes. Calyx persistent, ± cup-shaped, with 5 short teeth. Ovary 5-locular. Style not branched, clavate. Fruit a loculicidally dehiscent capsule with 5 valves. Seeds woolly.