Usually solitary or paired flowers.  The pedicels are long:  20 cm at anthesis or in fruit up to 34 cm. Flowers longer than or equal to 10 cm.  Leaves do not 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