Small tree up to 3 m. Twigs greyish-brown with numerous to densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs, interspersed with darker peltate scales. Leaves simple, 5.5– 27.5 by 1.8–7 cm, elliptical or obovate, or subcordate at the base, apex acuminate, with few to numerous stellate hairs and peltate scales on the midrib; veins 10–40 on each side of the midrib; almost sessile or with a petiole up to 1 cm. Inflorescence 4–6.5 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide; peduncle 5–15 mm, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with hairs and scales like those on the twigs. Flowers 2.5 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, pedicel 1–2.5 mm. Calyx with dark brown stellate scales on the outside. Corolla tube divided to about half way into 5 lobes, or petals 5. Staminal tube c. 1.2 mm long and wide, cup-shaped; anthers 5, c. 0.7 mm long, inserted on the margin of the tube, the outer surface of the anther continuous with the outer surface of the tube, densely covered with simple yellow hairs along the margins of the anthers. Fruits not seen.
Home