Shrub to 3 m high. Indumentum uncoloured. Branchlets with dense stellate trichomes, glabrescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 1.5–5 mm long, entire. Leaf lamina elliptic, 30–100 mm long, 20–50 mm wide; base cuneate; margins sinuate to denticulate with 20–28 teeth [inconsistent with key to spp. step 29-Editor]; tip acute, short to long acuminate; venation penninerved with 10 or 11 lateral veins per side of midrib and reticulate tertiary veins; lower surface pale green, venation weakly prominent, with scattered stellate trichomes; extrafloral nectaries 2 at base of lamina, circular, stipitate to 1.5 mm, visible above and below. Male flowers: pedicels 2–3 mm long; sepals lanceolate-ovate, 2–2.3 mm long; petals oblanceolate, 2.5–2.8 mm long; stamens 9–11. Styles 3, bifid once. Fruit trilobate, globose, c. 4 mm long and 4 mm diam., with sparse ± sessile stellate trichomes.
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