Shrub 3 m; branchlets rather densely short-pubescent, soon glabrous and longitudinally striate. Leaves oblong-ovate, rather aorupuy (1.5-2 cm) acutely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to nearly rounded at the base, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, densely pellucid-punctate but not-lineate, brown and dull when dry, more pale beneath, entire or very obscurely glandular-denticulate, laxly hairy on the midrib above, more densely so underneath both on midrib and nerves when young, glabrescent but remaining hairy at midrib and nerves underneath, 15-20 by (6-)7-9 (-11) cm; midrib thick, nearly flat above, strongly prominent beneath, nerves curved and excurrent along the leaf-margin, somewhat impressed above, prominent beneath, veins and venules nearly obscure above, reticulated but little raised beneath; petiole pubescent, 1.5 mm diam., 5-7 mm long. Glomerules nearly globose, formed by many, very short (1-1.5 mm), densely and minutely bracteate stems, many-flowered. Pedicel rather thick, 1.5-2 mm. Calyx yellowish-greenish, nearly 4 mm, glabrous in-and outside, 5-lobed to 2/3 of its height. Stamens 10; filaments thick-filiform, glabrous, alternately 0.6 and 0.3 mm. Staminodes 0.2 mm, densely whitish-hirsute. Ovary narrow-ovoid, 2.2 mm, densely long-hairy; stigma sessile, elongate, thick, c. 1 mm long. Immature fruit laxly pilose, more densely so towards the apex; peduncle thick, c. 2 mm long.
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