Shrub or small tree up to 12 m tall; young branches shortly brown-to densely coarsely ferruginous-pubescent.. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, 2.2–11 cm long, 1.3–5.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, asymetrically rounded to obliquely truncate at the base, margins coarsely serrate, ± glabrous or with a sparsecovering of minute stellate hairs above especially when young, dense whitish stellate-pubescent beneath, less so on the brownish veins; petiole 3–10 mm long, shortly brownish to coarsely ferruginous stellate-pubescent; stipules subulate, up to 8 mm long.. Inflorescence a (1–)3-flowered axillary cyme, 1–4 in a leaf-axil, the axes shortly to densely coarsely ferruginous stellate-pubescent; peduncle 7–16 mm long; pedicels 6–9 mm long.. Flowers yellow; sepals 9–14 mm long; petals oblong to obovate, 6–8 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide.. Androgynophore 1–2 mm long, glabrous, densely pubescent at the apex.. Stamens 6–7 mm long.. Ovary 1.5–2 mm long, densely hairy; style 5–7 mm long.. Fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 7–8 mm long, 6–8 mm wide, with a few scattered long hairs.. Fig. 4/41 (leaf, p. 11).
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