Shrub to 4 m high. Indumentum uncoloured to silver. Branchlets with dense peltate trichomes, glabrescent. Stipules shortly lanceolate, c. 0.5 mm long, entire. Leaf lamina elliptic to oblanceolate, 30–70 mm long, 10–32 mm wide; base rounded to retuse; margins ± entire or very weakly denticulate; tip acute to acuminate; venation penninerved with 12–14 lateral veins per side of midrib, tertiary reticulate veins obscure; lower surface silver-white, lateral veins indistinct, with dense peltate trichomes and peltate scales; extrafloral nectaries absent or 2 at base of lamina, circular, ±sessile, visible above and below. Male flowers: pedicels 2.5–3 mm long; sepals lanceolate-ovate to ovate, 1.8–2.2 mm long; petals obovate, 1.5–2 mm long; stamens 9 or 10. Styles 3, multifid, twice divided. Fruit trilobate, depressed-globose, 9–10 mm long, 10–10.5 mm diam., with dense stellate trichomes on mammillate protuberances.
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