Shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall; younger stems, petioles, and inflorescence densely covered with a mass of strongly barbellate or plumose hairs surpassed by projecting simple bristles; petioles slender, up to 4 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 8-15 cm. long, 2-7 cm. wide, acuminate, entire, obtuse to rounded at base, 5-nerved, very sparsely and minutely hispidulous above, sparsely hirsute beneath with simple bristles, the barbellate pubescence of the petiole con-tinuing along the primary nerves and to some extent along the secondaries; panicle slender with ascending branches, 5-15 cm. long; flowers 5-merous; hypanthium subglobose, minutely stellate and hirsutulous; sepals depressed-triangular, very short, the exterior teeth minute; petals white, about 3 mm. long.
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