Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branchlets stiffly spreading rusty hirsute to glabrescent. Petiole 10-15 mm, hirsute; leaf blade subleathery or leathery, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, 13-25 × 5-7.5 cm, glabrous adaxially, densely hirtellous or hirsute to strigose abaxially, base acute to obtuse, apex shortly acuminate; lateral veins 7-10 pairs; nervules subparallel, elevated abaxially; stipules lanceolate to deltoid, 8-10 mm, hirsute, generally persistent at least on apical nodes. Inflorescences glomerulate, sessile, hirsute; bracts leaflike, numerous, persistent, outer ones ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 cm, with distinct nerves, inner ones linear, much smaller. Flowers sessile. Calyx densely hirsute; hypanthium portion obconical, ca. 1 mm; limb 5-lobed; lobes linear-lanceolate, ca. 2.5 mm. Corolla 11-15 mm; tube 8-12 mm, outside glabrous in lower half and hirsute in upper half, glabrous inside; lobes 5, ovate, ca. 3 mm. Fruit ovoid-globose, 4-5 mm in diam., hirsute to glabrescent, with ca. 5 rounded ridges; pyrenes 5. Fr. Nov.
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A shrub. It grows 1-2 m tall. The small branches are stiff and spreading with rusty hairs. The leaves are oblong and 13-25 cm long by 5-8 cm wide. The flowers are in round heads 2-3 cm across. The fruit are oval and 4.5 cm across.
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