Shrub to 3 m high. Indumentum yellow. Branchlets with dense stellate trichomes. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 3.5–4 mm long, entire. Leaf lamina elliptic to ovate, 40–180 mm long, 20–80 mm wide; base rounded, weakly cordate; margins denticulate with 20–23 teeth; tip acute, short to long acuminate; venation penninerved with 12–14 lateral veins per side of midrib, tertiary reticulate veins obscure; lower surface pale green, lateral veins weakly prominent, with dense velutinous stellate trichomes; extrafloral nectaries 2 at base of lamina, circular, stipitate to 1.5 mm long, visible below only. Male flowers: pedicels 1.8–2 mm long; sepals lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 1.3–1.6 mm long; petals oblanceolate, c. 1.5 mm long; stamens 11 or 12. Styles 3, bifid once. Fruit trilobate, depressed-globose, 4.5–6 mm long, 6–8 mm diam., with scattered ±sessile stellate trichomes.
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