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Leaf-lamina 3–11x1·5–7 cm., ± broadly ovate or elliptic to oblong-elliptic, subcircular to obovate, leathery to membranous; apex subacuminate, acute, sub-acute, obtuse, rounded or rarely retuse; margins entire or sharply serrate; base cuneate, subcuneate, obtuse, truncate or rarely subcordate; superior surface tomentulose to glabrescent, with conspicuous venation; inferior surface ± densely tomentose to pubescent, mainly along the nerves which are prominent; petiole usually 2–8 mm. long, sericeous-hirsute; stipules up to c. 9 mm. long, ± triangular, brown or green, sericeous-tomentose, caducous.
Flowers (4)5(6)-merous; pedicels usually 3–8(rarely 14) mm. long, hirsute, articulate above or rarely at the middle; bracteoles up to 5 mm. long, conchiform, truncate at the apex, ± truncate at the base, densely appressed pubescent to puberulous.
Shrub or small tree up to 7 m. high; young branchlets puberulous to ± densely tomentose, older branches glabrescent to glabrous; bark grey to brown, rough, longitudinally ± deeply ridged, corky on the trunk and on the older branches.
Ovary 1·5–3·5 mm. long, ovoid, 3(4)-locular, very densely and regularly hairy, superior; style up to c. 5·6 mm. long, ± pubescent near the base or up to the middle or throughout, with 3(4) stigmatic lobes.
Calyx greenish, ± sericeous-tomentose outside and ± densely appressed pubescent to puberulous inside; calyx-tube 2–4 mm. long; calyx-lobes (5)7–10(17) mm. long, ± broadly lanceolate.
Stamens (26)30–40; filaments 6–9 mm. long; anthers up to 2 mm. long, oblong-ellipsoid.
Petals 8–14 mm. long, spathulate, laciniate above, white or cream, glabrous.
Fruit up to 14 mm. long, ovoid to ± spherical, ± densely puberulous.
Seeds dark brown to black; aril orange-coloured.
Inflorescences l(few)-flowered.
