Shrubs 1.3 m high, evergreen, bark blackish grey; branchlets angled, shortly villous with grey hairs. Leaves alternate or occasionally subopposite, concolorous or only slightly discolorous, thickly coriaceous and stiff, thinly covered with crisped white hairs giving the leaves a hoary look, predominantly obovate to narrowly-obovate but sometimes obovate-elliptic or even ovate-oblong, 3-7 cm long and 1.3 cm broad; base cuneate to subobtuse; apex acute to rounded; nerves usually somewhat raised on lower surface; pale, raised or not raised and sometimes even immersed on the upper surface; margin entire, flat, slightly thickened, not revolute; petioles very short; stipules absent. Inflorescence axillary, sparsely to densely covered with crisped grey hairs; bracts very large, broadly ovate to rotundate, hairy outside, glabrous on inside, reddish brown, caducous; male inflorescence about 2.5 cm long, females much shorter, few-flowered, often reduced to one flower, usually almost completely enveloped in the large bracts when young. Male flowers 5-7 mm long. Calyx divided half-way or nearly to the base, about 1/5-1/8 the length of the corolla; lobes acute to acuminate, densely villous outside. Corolla subglobose to urceolate, 4-6 mm long, sparsely villous below or glabrous, densely hairy upwards especially on the lobes; lobes about-the length of tube, obtuse, the margin usually involute. Stamens 16-21, free or connate in pairs at the base, in two rows; filaments glabrous; anthers narrowly oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy especially on the connective, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary rudimentary, densely villous, with 2 glabrous rather slender styles. Female flowers like the males in shape and size but often enveloped in the large bracts. Ovary globose to ovoid-conical, densely villous-woolly, usually 4-(6-)celled, ovules single and pendulous; styles very short, stout, glabrous, with a somewhat oblique semicircular stigma. Staminodes absent. Fruit subglobose (when 2-3, hermispherical or triangular) up to 9 mm in diam. Seed with two thin curved lines and a groove dividing it into 3 sections, brown, finely rugose; endosperm flinty, pale grey, not ruminate; embryo somewhat curved.
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A shrub or small tree 3-4 m in height. Bark: blackish grey; branchlets with greyish hairs. Leaves: spirally arranged, obovate to ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, 3-7 x 1.5 cm, stiffly leathery, dull green to grey above and below, thinly covered with crisped white hairs at least below, lateral veins usually slightly prominent on the undersurface; apex tapering to rounded; base tapering to almost square; margin entire, thickened and flat, with long white hairs; petiole almost absent. Flowers: small, in few-flowered (often only 1-flowered) axillary heads up to 2, 5 cm long, covered with crisped white hairs; bracts conspicuous, falling very early (Sept. /Oct.). Fruit: almost round, up to 9 mm in diameter, thinly fleshy, occasionally 2-3 together producing an almost triangular effect, red to purplish black (Oct. /Nov.).
A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-4 m tall. The bark is blackish grey. The small branches are hairy. The leaves are arranged in spirals. They are broadly oval and 3-7 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. They have white hairs underneath. The flowers are white and there can be several in a group. The fruit is almost round and 9 mm across. It is purplish black.
Dioecious, many-stemmed shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, grey-velvety on young parts. Leaves obovate, leathery, usually grey-hairy. Flowers in axillary racemes, sometimes solitary, shallowly lobed, white, fragrant. Fruit woolly.
Dioecious shrub to 1.5 m, grey-velvety on young parts. Leaves obovate, leathery, usually grey-hairy. Flowers in grey-hairy, axillary racemes, sometimes solitary, shallowly lobed, white, fragrant, ovary woolly.
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