Low, stunted tree, or shrub-like; branches ascending, rigid, covered with brown bark. Branchlets short, rather robust, short-hairy. Leaves oblong to subobovate-elliptic, apex shortly attenuate or subacuminate, base broadly cuneate, the very base often obtuse, subcoriaceous, firm, younger ones very densely shortly stellate-hairy above, covered all over beneath with a tomentum of minor and larger stellate, brownish greyish hairs, large fascicled hairs on petiole and midrib below few or absent, mature ones glabrous and a little shining above, rather persistently greyish tomentulose beneath, finely serrate-dentate in the upper part, tips of the serratures usually callose, 5-8 by (2-)2.5-4 cm, midrib bold beneath, nerves in 9-11(-12) pairs, curved, excurrent or divided along or before the edge, raised beneath, reticulation rather faint; petiole 0.5-1 cm by c. 2 mm. Racemes panicled, (8-)10-15 cm, covered with a fulvous-greyish tomentum of stellate and fascicled hairs; rachis stoutish. Pedicels robust, 2-3(-5) mm, bracts subulate, caducous. Calyx lobes ovate-oblong, 4-5 by 2(-2.5) mm. Petals obovate-spathulate, minutely crenulate at apex, white, glabrous, (4-)5(-6) by c. 2.5 mm. Filaments glabrous, 3 mm; anthers obcordate, 1 mm. Ovary longish erect-tomentose; style thickish, glabrous, (2.5-)3 mm (3-4 mm in fruit), shortly 3-lobed. Capsule depressed-globose, c. 3 mm ø. Seeds oval, 1 mm.
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