Erect shrub to 2 m high. Leaves petiolate, ovate to elliptic or broadly elliptic, 3–14 cm long, flat, obtuse to acute or acuminate, papery, glabrous adaxially, tomentose abaxially. Umbels axillary, several-flowered; peduncle 0–18 mm long; pedicels slender, 3–15 mm long. Sepals triangular, 0.5–1 mm long. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 6 mm long, white, rusty-stellate abaxially. Stamens 10, glabrous; anthers c. 1 mm long, with small terminal gland and narrow glandular connective. Carpels 5, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous; stigma lobes short and thick, verrucose. Cocci stellate-spinose; beak erect, 1–3 mm long.