Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-6 m tall. Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences densely brownish floccose-tomentose or brownish or yellowish pulveraceous tomentose. Stipules subulate, 5-15 mm; petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade suborbicular or broadly ovate, often tricuspidate or shortly and acutely 1-or 2-lobed, 8-35 × 6-28 cm, papery, adaxially stellate-villous along nerves, abaxially stellate-tomentose, scattered yellow glandular-scaly, base rounded, broadly peltate, with up to 4 basal glands, margin repand-denticulate, apex acuminate; basal veins 5-7. Male inflorescences terminal, branched or unbranched, 15-34 cm; bracts subulate, 5-7 mm. Male flowers 3-5-fascicled; pedicel 3-4 mm; calyx lobes 4 or 5, oblong, 3-3.5 mm, stellate-pubescent; stamens 75-85. Female inflorescences branched or unbranched; peduncle stout; infructescence erect, 10-20 cm; bracts subulate, 4-5 mm. Female flowers: pedicel 2-3 mm; calyx 4-or 5-lobed, 4-5 mm, tomentose; ovary 3-5-locular, densely setose, tomentose; style 3-4 mm, plumose. Fruiting pedicel 5-30 mm; capsule subglobose, 12-20 mm in diam., densely stellate-tomentose and softly spiny, forming a continuous uniform layer, spines linear, 6-7 mm. Seeds ovoid, ca. 5 mm, black, verruculose. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep-Oct.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 2-6 m tall. The small branches have a brown coating.
Locally common in deciduous and evergreen forest, mostly in open, often very disturbed or burned places, along road and river sides; on a large variety of soil types, like shale, limestone, sandstone, and sandy clay; at elevations up to 1,400 metres.
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