Monoecious shrub or small tree to 5 m high; branchlets slender (c. 1 mm diam. at apex), strigose, with long coarse hairs and minute fine hairs. Leaves: lamina broadly ovate, rarely elliptic-ovate, 4–17 cm long, 3–14 cm wide, acuminate, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, upper surface with sparse to dense curved hairs, lower surface densely white-tomentose; cystoliths punctiform; lateral veins in 3 or 4 pairs on each side, the basal pair prominent, extending to distal third; petiole 2.5–9 cm long; stipules 4–8 mm long, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary and at nodes, in short cymose clusters on a short peduncle, lower inflorescences male, upper ones female. Male flowers c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Female flowers c. 0.5 mm long. Achene tightly adnate and enclosed by perianth.
Grows along streams and in swampy areas, and rainforest margins, usually in sheltered areas with high rainfall at an altitude range of (20–) 400–1000 m.
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