Shrubs to small trees, up to 7 m high, usually single-stemmed. Indumentum of yellow-ferruginous hairs, mainly glabrescent. Bark roughly fissured, black-grey. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 4-6 by 0.3-0.8 mm, with dense hairs. Leaves: petioles 2.5-10 mm long, densely hairy; blade elliptic, orbicular or ovate, 10-65 by 7-45 mm, strongly discoloured, base cuneate, rounded or truncate, apex rounded to apiculate, upper surface dark glossy green, not granular, with sparse hairs when young; lower surface cream to cream-brown or ferruginous-brown, densely sericeous; venation with 5-7 pairs of nerves, veins ± obscure, reticulate. Flowers cream. Staminate flowers 5-12 mm diam.; pedicels 1-2 mm long, with sparse hairs; sepals 4, orbicular, broadly ovate to obovate, cucullate, 3.5-6 by 2.5-5 mm, sparsely hairy outside; stamens 28-68, connate into a column of 1.5-2 mm high, filaments 0.8-1.2 mm long, connate for most of their length, anthers oblong, 1.5-2 by 0.5-1 mm, usually with sparse hairs on apex of connective although occasionally glabrous. Pistillate flowers 5-8 mm diam.; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long, densely hairy; sepals 8, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 3.5-5.5 by 1.5-3 mm, densely hairy outside; ovary ovoid, 3.5-4 by c. 3 mm diam., with dense antrorse hairs; stigmas 4, elliptic-oblong, 5-6.5 by 1.4-2.5 mm, with sparse hairs on top and densely hairy on back. Fruit globose to subglobose, 11-22 by 15-20 mm diam., orange-yellow to orange. Seed ellipsoid, 6-9 by 3-4.5 by 3-4 mm thick, smooth to slightly rugose, glossy red-brown; caruncle ± reniform, 1.5-2.5 by 1.8-2.5 mm, yellow to yellow-red.
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