Leaves lanceolate to oblong, apex shortly sub-acutely acuminate, base ± cuneate, younger ones glabrous above, more densely or laxly set with longish simple or fascicled, ± appressed pale rusty hairs on midrib and nerves, ± laxly and minutely stellate-hairy on veins beneath, mature ones gradually glabrescent, finally sometimes quite glabrous, shortly or rarely more deeply and distantly serrate in the upper part, occasionally subentire, (4-)5-10(-14, rarely-17) by (1.5-)2-3.5(-4.5, very rarely-8) cm, nerves (8-)10-14 (rarely-16) pairs, curved-ascending, ± joined before the edge, raised beneath, veins often obscure though a fine reticulation is visible; petiole rather slender, 0.5-1 (-1.8) cm. Racemes panicled, (4-)6-15(-24) cm, flowers rather dense along the ± slender rachis, covered with a tomentum of longer, fascicled rusty and minor pale stellate hairs (rarely only with the latter ones). Pedicels generally rather slender, rarely more robust, 1-2 mm (in fruit 2-3 mm). Petals irregularly erose-crenulate mainly at apex, (2-)2.5(-3)mm.
In the Philippines and in Celebes in mountain (also mossy) forest, mainly on ridges and peaks, (400-)700-2100 m, in New Guinea in open beach forest and in savannah-like thickets on dry hill (300 m) near the coast, presumably mainly in secondary vegetation. Fl. fr.Jan.-Dec.
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