Elegant shrub, 1–3 m high. Stems, petioles and pedicels faintly greyish with minute hairs, often glabrescent. Leaves alternate, simple; lamina circular to broadly ovate, usually 9–16 cm long, entire or weakly crenate, long-acuminate, minutely stellate-hairy, often glabrescent; petiole 0.5–12 cm long; stipules setaceous, c. 2 mm long. Flowers often in loose, terminal panicles with many small leaves. Calyx campanulate; segments 5, ovate, apiculate, fused in basal third. Petals obovate, c. 15 mm long, rounded apically, yellow. Staminal column c. 8 mm long; anthers clustered at apex. Schizocarp not exceeding calyx; mericarps 10–14, 6–8 mm long, truncate with 2 divergent, acute points, and some large, coarse, stellate hairs. Seeds usually 2.
Grows in natural and disturbed clearings and the forest margin behind the sea cliffs on the lower terraces, and is a frequent species in secondary growth and along paths and tracks. Has responded well to environmental disturbance, and is a common shrub.
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