Shrub to 2.5 m high, glabrous. Branchlets terete or slightly angular, smooth. Leaves sessile, amplexicaul, broadly oblong-elliptic, 6–10 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, with rounded basal lobes, serrulate, flat, obtuse to acute, chartaceous, smooth. Flowers 20–200 or more in a terminal rounded compound cyme; pedicels angular, c. 2 mm long. Calyx fleshy, glabrous; lobes broadly deltate, c. 0.5 mm long. Petals spreading, narrowly obovate, c. 4.5 mm long, white. Stamens ±equal to petals. Gynophore short, narrower than ovary. Carpels 5; ovary sub-spherical, c. 1.2 mm high, smooth. Cocci ±erect, c. 3 mm high, rounded at apex and very shortly rostrate on outer angle.
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