Shrubs, ca. 1 m tall. Branchlets blackish, gray-black tomentose. Petiole 3-4 cm, black or gray-brown tomentose; leaf blade oblanceolate, 14-17 × 4-5 cm, abaxially densely gray-brown tomentose, adaxially glabrous, midrib raised abaxially, concave adaxially, lateral veins 11-17 pairs, conspicuously elevated abaxially, veinlets inconspicuous, base cuneate, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, ca. 2.2 cm, with a few flowers; peduncle 1-1.2 cm. Pedicel 8-10 mm, gray-black tomentose or pubescent. Perianth lobes subequal, oblong, 5-6 × ca. 3 mm, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces. Fruit compressed globose, ca. 3.5 cm in diam.; fruiting pedicel slightly enlarged. Fr. Apr.
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