Shrub or small tree to 6 m high; evergreen. Stems flattened towards apices, with dense, velutinous, yellow, stellate hairs when young, becoming sparse with age. Leaves opposite, not peltate; lamina elliptic, lanceolate-ovate, obovate or ± orbicular, 50–250 mm long, 22–250 mm wide; base cordate, rounded or truncate; margins strongly dentate with 12–15 teeth, each 2–7 mm long; tip acute or acuminate; venation penniveined, comprising 6–8 lateral veins per side of midrib and reticulate interlateral veins; upper surface without granular inclusions; lower surface pale green, interlateral venation well developed, with dense velutinous, yellow, stellate hairs and scattered, yellow sessile glands, becoming sparse with age. Stamens 28–42. Fruit subglobose, 8–10 mm long, 13–15 mm diam., with simple echinate processes to 3 mm long that have sparse to dense, yellow simple or biseriate hairs and scattered, yellow sessile glands.
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