Dombeya burgessiae flowers among the leaves

The Dombeya burgessiae flower cluster grows on long, thin and hairy, green pedicels. They branched from a peduncle grown from a leaf axil. The leaf petioles are about 15 cm long, the stipules about 1,5 cm.

The paired lobes at the back of the leaves are large, appearing exaggerated. Some of them meet, well behind the leaf-base from where sometimes more than seven pale cream veins emerge. The veins radiate across the deep green blades that are only slightly paler on their lower sides and faintly hairy on both. Some net-veining is present on the soft blades, all the veining sunken on the upper surface.

The leaves become from 6 cm to 20 cm long and from 5 cm to 19 cm wide (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Pooley, 1993).