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Leaf-lamina 4–14 × 2·5–9 cm., obliquely oblong to broadly obovate-oblong, apex acute or obtuse or broadly rounded, margin coarsely and irregularly serrate, base asymmetrically rounded or subcordate, green and shortly stellate-tomentose above, densely greyish-brown-tomentose below; lateral nerves in c. 4 pairs; petiole up to 1 cm. long, ferruginously hairy; stipules c. 6 mm. long, obliquely lanceolate-subulate.
Inflorescences all axillary, with densely ferruginous-tomentose peduncles up to 15 mm. long; pedicels 2–3 together, up to 5 mm. long, ferruginously tomentose; bracts c. 5 mm. long, entire, oblong-lanceolate, ferruginously tomentose on the back, almost glabrous within.
Shrub or small tree, usually branching from the base; main stems up to c. 12 cm. in diam.; young branches ferruginously tomentose, glabrous with age and becoming brown with pale lenticels; crown rounded.
Petals yellow, 6–8 mm. long, obovate to circular, with a basal nectariferous claw circumvillous within ledged above and glabrous on the back.
Fruit yellowish, normally very deeply 2-lobed, each lobe c. 7·5 mm. in diam., sparsely stellately pilose.
Sepals 10–13 mm. long, narrowly oblong, with a tufted stellate tomentum on the back, glabrous inside.
Ovary densely pilose, 2-lobed; style up to 10 mm. long, glabrous, with c. 4 broad stigmatic lobes.
Androgynophore 1·5 mm. long, glabrous except at the villous apex, not elongated above the node.
Flower-buds oblong, slightly sulcate.
