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Leaf-lamina 4–18 × 3–10 cm., oblong or obovate-oblong, retuse or truncate at the apex with the midrib often produced as a short mucro, margin crenate-dentate, rounded and often asymmetric at the base, glabrescent above, softly pubescent below; petiole up to 8 mm. long, pubescent; stipules c. 6 mm. long, lanceolate-acuminate, dorsally keeled, pubescent.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 6 m tall. The leaves are 4-8 cm long by 3-10 cm wide. They can be notched at the tip and have teeth along the edge. The base is rounded and often unequal. The flowers are on stalks opposite the leaves with 3-9 flowers in a group. They are white. The fruit have 4 deep lobes. They are 1.5 cm across.
Inflorescences opposite the leaves, 3–9-flowered; peduncles pubescent, very short; pedicels c. 15 mm. long, pubescent; bracts similar to the stipules, c. 0·7 cm. long.
Petals white, 10–16 mm. long with an ovate acute lamina much wider than the nectariferous claw which is circumvillous within ledged above and up to 2 mm. long.
Sepals 1·5–2·5 cm. long, linear-oblong with a thickened and swollen apex, green and tomentellous outside, white and glabrous inside.
Fruit c. 1·5 cm. in diam., deeply 4-lobed, with the lobes somewhat conical and sparsely and minutely tuberculate-setulose.
Androgynophore with a glabrous lower portion up to 2 mm. long and a pubescent elongation above 2·5–3 mm. long.
Ovary 4-lobed, setulose-pubescent; style c. 1 cm. long, glabrous; stigma-lobes broad.
Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall, with pubescent branchlets.
