Shrub or tree; young branches reddish-blackish when dry, applanate, very shortly pilose, soon glabrescent. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly and broadly acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to nearly rounded at the base, chartaceous, shallowly sinuate-dentate, ± manifestly and rather minutely pellucid-punctate, but not-striate, puberulent on midrib and nerves beneath, glabrous elsewhere, dark-brown and dull when dry, 12-18 by 5-7.5(-9) cm; midrib little raised above, strongly so beneath, nerves (9-) 10-11, fiat above, prominent beneath, veins transverse, visibly elevated underneath, reticulations rather fine and little prominent on both faces specially beneath; petiole 7-10 by nearly 2 mm. Flowers 1-2 developed simultaneously from a subglobose cushion formed by numerous, small, pubescent bracts; pedicels up to 2 mm. Calyx 3 mm, somewhat pilose outside. Stamens 10; filaments alternately longer and shorter. Staminodes elongate and densely pilose. Ovary ovoid-subglobose, densely pilose, with a short and thick style.
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