Leaves elliptic, more rarely oblong-elliptic, apex shortly subacutely acuminate, sometimes more obtuse, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, sub-coriaceous, younger ones laxly set with minute stellate hairs above, densely clothed with rather small floccose stellate hairs on the prominent midrib and nerves, and more laxly so on the veins beneath, glabrous on the intervenium, moreover sparsely set with longer simple or fascicled hairs on midrib and nerves beneath, mature ones glabrescent first above, tardily beneath, subentire or minutely (rarely more deeply) serrate, (3.5-)4-7(-10) by (1.5-)2-4(-5) cm, nerves 10-12(-14) pairs, curved, rather approximate, ± parallel and anastomosing; petiole rather robust, 0.3-1 (-1.3) cm. Racemes panicled or almost umbellate, 3-6(-11) cm, covered with a tomentum of small dark-rusty stellate floccose hairs; flowers ± dense along the thickish rachis. Pedicels robust, 1(-2) mm, slightly accrescent in fruit, bract subulate, caducous, 3-4 mm. Petals white or cream, irregularly erose at apex, 3-3.5 mm.
In montane Pinus insularis, Quercus or Podocarpus forest, also in mossy forest or in shrubby summit vegetation, 1220-2250(-2700?) m, rather common locally. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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