Shrub, often scandent, up to 8 m tall; young branches shortly brown-to ferruginous stellate-pubescent.. Leaves ovate, elliptic or obovate, 2.8–10 cm long, 1.2–5 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, margin evenly serrate, scabrid to ± glabrous above, shortly stellate-pubescent to scabrid beneath, sometimes glabrescent, papyraceous to subcoriaceous; petiole 2.5–7 mm long, shortly brown-to ferruginous-stellate-pubescent.. Inflorescences leaf-opposed axillary and terminal 3–14-flowered cymes, the axes covered with a short brown-to ferruginous-stellate pubescence; peduncle 8–18 mm long; pedicels 8–15 mm long.. Flowers white, greenish on the outside; sepals 9–17 mm long; petals lanceolate, 6–10 mm long, ± 1.5 mm wide.. Androgynophore glabrous for ± 1 mm at the base, densely pubescent and produced for 1–5 mm above the node.. Stamens 5–8 mm long.. Ovary 1–1.5 mm long, densely hairy; style 5–7 mm long.. Fruit (1–)4-lobed, 10–13 mm wide, the lobes 5–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, pale green when young, scattered with long hairs with a small wart at their base.
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A shrub. It grows 3 m tall. The leaves are broadly oval and 10 cm long. There are teeth along the edge. The base is rounded but can be wedge shaped. There can be some fine hairs underneath. The flowers are white or yellow. They are in groups in the axils or leaves or at the ends of branches. The fruit have 2-6 lobes. They are edible.
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