Shrubs to 3 m tall, the branchlets pubescent. Leaves subsessile, ovate oblong, to 10 cm long, to 5 cm wide, acuminate, the lateral veins (6-)8-12, discolorous, dark chocolate color above, lighter beneath, glabrescent above, sericeous be-neath; stipules subulate, 8-9 mm long, triangular at the base, 2-3 mm wide.
A shrub.