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Leaf-lamina (5)7–12 × (2·5)4·5–6(7) cm., broadly oblong or elliptic, ± obtuse, attenuate at the apex, margin remotely denticulate, broadly cuneate or roundish and slightly unequal at the base, papery, with ± dense, yellowish, soft and spreading hairs along the midrib and nerves on the upper surface and ± densely rusty-tomentose beneath; midrib and the 5–7 pairs of lateral nerves flat on the upper side, prominent on lower side which is conspicuously reticulate-veined; petiole 5–6 mm. long.
Shrub or tree, up to 10 m high. Leaves elliptic to subovate-elliptic or oblong, lower surface persistently pilose to tomentose, petioles 5-6 mm long. Ovary sparsely pilose to glabrous at anthesis; styles glabrous at base. Capsule loosely and shortly pilose. Flowers whitish yellow; appearing before leaves.
Flowers appearing before the leaves, cream-coloured, in pedicellate fascicles of 3–5, borne in the axils of cucullate caducous bracts, arranged along the branches and forming a terminal tawny-tomentose panicle up to 32 cm. long; pedicels 6–8(9) mm. long, yellowish-tomentose.
Small tree or shrub up to 10 m. high, much-branched, the young branches rusty-tomentose or-velvety, the old ones covered with grey bark, slightly scaly, usually without leaves when in flower.
Calyx campanulate; sepals 6–8 × 3·5 mm., oblong, yellowish, silky outside at least along the median nerve, glabrous inside.
Ovary sparsely hairy or glabrous at anthesis, with a gynophore 1–1·5 mm. high; styles 1–1·5 mm. long, glabrous.
Corona c. 2 mm. high, with the laciniae connate in the lower 2/3 but free apically.
Stamens with filaments 6–7 mm. long and anthers 2–3 mm. long.
Petals 7–8(10) × 3 mm., oblong, yellowish, glabrous.
Capsule c. 1·5 × 1 cm., ellipsoid, sparsely hairy.
