Shrub to 5 m high; deciduous. Stems ± rounded towards apices, with sparse clear, simple or stellate hairs, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, peltate; lamina broadly ovate to ovate, 20–130 mm long, 18–120 mm wide; base rounded or truncate; margins weakly dentate with 16–20 small teeth to 1 mm long; tip short to long acuminate; venation palmiveinved, comprising 8 or 9 veins from the lamina base, 8 or 9 lateral veins per side of midrib and reticulate interlateral veins; upper surface without granular inclusions; lower surface silver-green, interlateral venation well developed, with sparse to dense, clear to ginger simple, biseriate and/or stellate hairs and scattered to dense yellow sessile glands, indumentum persistent. Stamens 18–20. Fruit subglobose, 4.5–6 mm long, 7–9 mm diam., with scattered simple, biseriate and/or stellate hairs, scattered yellow sessile glands and echinate processes 1–2.2 mm long.
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