Usually solitary or paired flowers. The pedicels are long: 20 cm at anthesis or in fruit up to 34 cm. Flowers longer than 10 cm. Leaves have spines.
Cite: Paul Fryxell, Revision and Expansion of the Neotropical Genus Wercklea (Malvaceae). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, Vol 62, No. 4 (October 1981), pp. 457-486