Shrubs to 3 m tall. Bark dark gray. Branches densely villous when young, glabrescent. Petiole 2-3 mm, villous; leaf blade oblong to elliptic, 6-18 × 2.5-5.5 cm, membranous, abaxially glaucous and villous, adaxially glossy and glabrous except for pubescent midvein, midvein adaxially impressed, secondary veins ca. 10 on each side of midvein and prominent on both surfaces, base rounded to sometimes shallowly cordate, apex acuminate. Flowers axillary, reportedly light red. Fruiting pedicel much longer than monocarps. Monocarps 1-3, sessile, ovoid, 1.8-3 × 1-1.5 cm, obscurely moniliform, very shallowly transversely constricted between seed, densely tomentose, base rounded, apex apiculate. Seeds 10 per monocarp, in 2 series. Fl. Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.
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