Slender shrub to 3 m high with coarse rusty tomentum. Leaves petiolate, narrowly elliptic, 4–13 cm long, acuminate, flat, sparsely stellate adaxially, densely stellate abaxially. Umbels axillary and terminal, sessile, 1–9-flowered, subtended by brown tomentose bracts; pedicels at first minute, extending to 18 mm in fruit. Sepals not apparent. Petals elliptic, 8–14 mm long, white, densely stellate abaxially. Stamens 10; anthers c. 2.5 mm long, with terminal gland not apparent. Carpels 5, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous; stigma verrucose. Cocci c. 10 mm long, constricted at apex, shortly beaked.
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