Shrub 2–5 m high; deciduous. Stems ± rounded towards apices, with dense, yellow stellate hairs when young, glabrescent. Leaves opposite, not peltate; lamina broad-ovate, elliptic-ovate, 25–150 mm long, 20–140 mm wide; base cordate or rounded; margins sinuate or weakly dentate with 12–18 teeth up to 1 mm long; tip acute to short acuminate; venation palmiveined, comprising 5–7 veins from lamina base, 4 or 5 lateral veins per side of midrib and reticulate interlateral veins; upper surface without granular inclusions; lower surface pale green, interlateral venation well developed, velutinous with dense, silver to pale brown stellate hairs and sparse, pale-yellow sessile glands. Stamens 62–78. Fruit flattened subglobose, 8–12 mm long, 13–18 mm diam., with dense, orange-yellow simple-stellate hairs and dense, glandular-based stellate hairs, echinate processes absent.
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