Shrub to 7 m high, evergreen. Branches erect, spreading. Branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves opposite, not crowded; lamina 1.2–4.5 cm long, 0.7–2.2 cm wide, attenuate or shortly attenuate at base, recurved margin, minutely mucronate at apex, discolorous, densely pubescent, glabrescent at least on upper surface; petiole 3–7 mm long, appressed pubescent. Inflorescence usually 2-flowered; peduncles to 1 cm long, appressed pubescent; bracts cordate to very broadly ovate, c. 1 mm long, caducous. Flowers on pedicels 1–7 mm long. Calyx c. 5 mm long, villous; bracteoles c. 3 mm long, villous. Petals villous, obovate, obtuse, c. 4 mm long. Staminal filaments 7 mm long. Disc villous. Style thinly villous at base. Fruit dry; calyx lobes 0.8–1.3 cm long; bracteoles broadly elliptic to circular, as long as calyx, thinly pubescent or glabrescent, 0.6–1.2 cm long, straw-coloured.
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