Sparingly branched sprawling shrub, 1.5-3 m tall; resprouting capacity unknown. Branchlets densely tomentose with pale rust-brown hairs at flowering. Leaves narrowly to broadly ovate, ±flat, 2-4.7 cm long, 9-24 mm wide, cordate to rounded at base, crenate to ±entire, acute to acuminate, pale green; veins longitudinal, 1-3, in broad leaves also palmate, prominent above and below; secondary venation reticulate. Inflorescences solitary with 18-22 flowers; pedicels glabrous. Perianth cream-white. Pistil 4.5-6 mm long; gland present. Fruit obliquely ovate to broadly ovate, 1.6-2 cm long, 0.9-1.2 cm wide, not curved at apex, obscurely beaked. Seed obliquely ovate or elliptic, 11-14 mm long; wing extending fully or partly down one side of body only, sometimes notched near base, blackish brown throughout.