Trees, to 7 m tall. Branches scattered shortly prickly, densely yellowish gray stellate tomentose. Leaves simple, deeply 3-5-lobed; petiole 10-40 cm, densely stellate tomentose; blade 19-25 × 16-26 cm, papery; lobes ovate, abaxially densely yellowish gray stellate tomentose, adaxially sparsely stellate pubescent, base cordate, margin entire or slightly undulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, erect, 27-40 cm, densely yellowish gray stellate tomentose; peduncles ca. 4 cm; umbels 3-3.5 cm in diam. Ovary 2-carpellate. Fruit globose, 7-9 mm in diam., stellate pubescent when young, then glabrescent; styles persistent, 1-2 mm; pedicels in fruit 1-2 cm, densely stellate pubescent. Fl. Sep-Oct, fr. Nov.