Shrub c. 1 m high. Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate, 10–15 mm long, flat, rounded at apex, coriaceous, glabrous above, stellate-tomentose below. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel 1–1.5 mm long, with petaloid basal bracts. Sepals linear and c. 1 mm long or absent. Petals elliptic, c. 8 mm long, yellow, abaxially with golden stellate hairs that have a thick solid spherical centre. Stamens 10, glabrous; anthers c. 1.6 mm long, with minute terminal gland. Carpels 5, glabrous except for adaxial contiguous margin; style glabrous; stigma hemispherical, verrucose. Cocci with a short blunt beak.
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