Shrub with stellate indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate. Inflorescence an axillary, pedunculate, 6-flowered umbel. Flowers bibracteolate, 5-merous. Calyx deeply lobed, valvate. Petals free, valvate. Disc small, lobed. Stamens 10, free; filaments thickened and bearded on adaxial side towards base, otherwise glabrous, slender above; anthers oblong, minutely apiculate. Carpels 5, fused in lower half, with short and solid apex, stellate-pilose on radial walls; ovary pyramidal; style slender, attached to medial adaxial margin of carpels; stigma shortly 5-lobed. Cocci slightly spreading, rounded at apex, ±glabrous at maturity. Seed reniform; sclerotesta smooth; hilum narrowly elliptic, in centre of adaxial margin and with pale strand on either side; raphe short, shrivelled; chalaza towards base of adaxial margin.
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