Shrubs, ca. 2 m tall; branches flattened to subterete, glabrous. Leaves often crowded at stem apices; petiole 0.6-3 cm, pilosulous to strigillose; blade drying membranous, green adaxially, often whitened abaxially, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 10-21 × 3-6 cm, strigillose to pilosulous on both surfaces with pubescence denser on principal veins, base cuneate to obtuse, apex slightly to markedly acuminate; secondary veins 7-11 pairs; stipules ovate, 3-5 mm, perhaps strigillose. Inflorescences strigillose to pilosulous; peduncle 1-5 cm; branched portion ca. 2 × 3 cm (not including petaloid bracts); bracts triangular, ca. 2 mm, petaloid bracts with blade portion elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, 2-3 × 0.5-1 cm, strigillose to pilosulous, with 3 principal veins, with stipe 1-3 cm; pedicels 0.5-1 cm. Flowers unknown. Capsules ellipsoid, ca. 1 × 0.5 cm, glabrous to pilosulous, with persistent calyx lobes lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, acute; seeds black, ca. 6 mm. Fr. Aug.
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