Woody perennial to 1 m high, sometimes rhizomatous. Leaves petiolate, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 10–25 mm long, somewhat leathery, sparsely stellate-hairy above when young, somewhat scabridulous when mature, variably stellate-tomentose below. Umbels terminal and axillary, sessile, 3–6-flowered; pedicels slender, 3–10 mm long. Sepals stellate and insignificant or glabrous and 0.5 mm long. Petals elliptic, 4–8 mm long, white, covered abaxially with colourless or rufous stellate hairs radiating in all directions. Stamens c. 15–25, glabrous; anthers c. 0.8 mm long, with terminal gland not apparent. Carpels 1–3, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous; stigma lobes short, ovoid and fleshy. Cocci with prominent horizontal beaks.
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