Small tree up to 3 m, with few branches. Twigs densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs. Leaves simple, 12–23 by 3–9 cm, acuminate at apex, rounded to a sub-cordate base, with hairs like those on the twigs numerous on the lower surface of the leaf, the arms of adjacent hairs overlapping and with smaller, paler hairs interspersed; veins 13–32 on each side of the midrib; petiole 2–4 cm, densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs. Inflorescence 1.5–2 cm long, with linear bracteoles up to 3 mm long; peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs. Flowers 2 mm long and 4 mm wide, sessile or with pedicels up to 0.5 mm; pedicels and calyx with a few stellate hairs which have arms up to 1 mm long. Petals 5. Staminal tube c. 1 mm long and wide, obovoid, aperture c. 1 mm wide; anthers 5, pale, half the length of the tube, inserted just inside the margin and pointing towards the centre of the flower. Infructescences in the axils of leaves near the apex of the shoot. Fruits solitary or in pairs, sub globose, densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs.
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