Dioecious (possibly sometimes monoecious) shrub or small tree. Branchlets minutely fulvous-pubescent at the tips, afterwards glabrous, purple-(to greyish-)brown. Leaves (subobovate or) elliptic to oblong, 6-12 by 3-5 cm, chartaceous, dark purple-brown when dry, at least at the lower side, minutely yellowish-tomentose on midrib and nerves above, on midrib, nerves, and larger veins beneath; glands few, small, usually on the upper surface; base usually slightly oblique, acute to rounded; apex acute to shortly acute-acuminate; nervation slightly sunken above, prominent beneath, nerves 5-8 pairs, strongly curved, usually distinctly interarching. Inflorescences axillary, not rarely pseudo-terminal on leafless axillary shoots (sometimes truly terminal?), laxly glomerulous, densely ferrugineous-tomentose, many-flowered. Flowers 3 mm long. Petals oblong, rather abruptly rhomboid in the upper part, 3 mm long, 2/3 mm incised, the outer side with some long median hairs. Disk absent. Ovary woolly pubescent, 3-celled; style 1, 3-parted at the tip. Fruits 1(-2), broadly obovate, flattened, 2-1-lobed, 1.5 by 2 cm, with a distinct suture on the margin, slightly warty, shortly velvety golden-brown pubescent, 2-1-seeded.
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