Shrub to 2 m high; young branchlets densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, ovate or orbicular, 5–10 mm long, 3–8 mm wide; base obtuse or sometimes slightly cordate; margin recurved; apex straight, obtuse to rounded; adaxial surface sparsely hairy with stipitate stellate hairs 0.3–0.7 mm across, glabrescent, tuberculate. Inflorescences on peduncles 0.5–0.8 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 1.9–3 mm long; stamens 15–30. Female flowers subsessile; calyx lobes narrowly ovate to ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm long, glabrous or with a sparse indumentum of stellate hairs abaxially, with margins entire; ovary stellate-pubescent. Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, 6–7 mm long, with a moderately dense indumentum of stellate hairs, glabrescent, 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.
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