Shrub to 3 m high. Leaves petiolate, oblong-elliptic, 3–6 cm long, flat, obtuse, sparsely stellate above, somewhat stellate-tomentose below. Umbels terminal and axillary, sessile, few-flowered, with petaloid basal bracts; pedicels slender, 5–20 mm long, to 30 mm in fruit. Sepals triangular, c. 0.5–1 mm long. Petals elliptic, c. 8 mm long, white to yellow or brown stellate-tomentose abaxially. Stamens 10; anthers 1.4–2 mm long, with terminal gland and narrow glandular connective. Carpels 5, stellate-tomentose; style stellate-hairy; stigma lobes thick, verrucose. Cocci with a spreading beak c. 2 mm long.