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Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5–3.3 cm. long, slender, with indumentum as on the young branches; lamina 5.5–12.0 x 3.0–7.5 cm., obovate to elliptic, on mature leaves glabrous or subglabrous above, shortly woolly below, the trichomes easily removable, green-brownish or brown above, grey-yellowish or grey-brownish below in sicco, subacute, acute or acuminate to obtuse acuminate or rounded at apex, subacute to rounded at base, margins subentire to irregularly serrate-dentate, papery, with 4–6 secondary nerves on each side of the midrib, the lower ones subopposite appearing 3–5-nerved from or near base.
Female flowers with calyx 7–9 mm. long, narrowly infundibuliform, slightly ridged, minutely tomentose-woolly outside, puberulous inside, 4–5-toothed, the teeth soon eroded, papery; corolla (? white) glabrous, tube 6.5–8.0 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, cylindrical, lobes 4, 6.0–6.5 x 2.5–3.0 mm., oblanceolate, obtuse; staminodes 4, filaments c. 1 mm. long, sterile anthers c. 0.7 mm. long; ovary c. 2 mm. long, ovoid; style 10–11 mm. long, first-forked at 3–4 mm. and with stigmatic branches 4–6 mm. long, linear but a little flattened, denticulate.
Shrub c. 5 m. high, dioecious, deciduous; branches densely clothed with grey-brownish appressed 2-branched, medifixed and shortly pediculated trichomes 0.5–1.0 mm. long, soon glabrescent, mature light grey and marked with prominent leaf-scars.
Cymes arranged in a panicle 3–9 cm. long and 4–8 cm. wide with indumentum like the branches, peduncle as long as half of the whole, slender.
Male flowers not seen.
Flowers subsessile.
Fruits not seen.
