Shrub?; branchlets glabrous, soon covered with a grey thin cork. Leaves oblong, shortly gradually obtusely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to nearly rounded at the base, subcoriaceous to firmly chartaceous, rather densely pellucid-punctate and-striate, brown and somewhat shining when dry, glabrous, regularly glandular-subserrate-dentate (teeth 0.5-1 mm high, 4-5 mm spaced), 10-17 by 5-7 cm; midrib and nerves nearly flat or slightly impressed above, distinctly prominent beneath, nerves (8-)9-10 pairs, curved-ascending, veins ± transverse, reticulations fine and rather dense, prominent on both faces; petiole rugose, glabrous, c. 1.5 cm. Flowers in many-flowered glomerules at the nodes of defoliate branchlets. Bracts numerous, ovate, densely hairy, 0.5 mm, forming a semiglobose cushion. Pedicels rather slender, glabrous, 6-8 mm. Calyx 4 mm, glabrous, thin, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10, equal; filaments thick-filiform, glabrous, 3.5 mm. Staminodes thick, clavate, densely hirsute, 1.8 mm. Ovary narrow-ovoid, 4 mm, gradually attenuate, towards the top into a short style, ± densely hairy.
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