A shrub or small tree, up to 8 or 10 m. tall; flowering internodes comparatively short, sparsely pubescent or glabrate; leaves ovate, mostly 6-8 or 9 cm. wide X 10-15 cm. long, or infrequently up to 15-18 X 20 cm., apex acuminate, or some-times rather blunt, base more or less inequilateral with one side often shorter, rounded, obtuse, cordate, or acute, pinnately nerved from the lower third, the major nerves 3 or 4 or in larger leaves 5 on each side, with reduced nerves upward, more or less pubescent above at least along the nerves, often somewhat glossy when dry, from densely crisp-pubescent to subglabrate beneath, but with the nerves mostly persistently rather densely crisp-pubescent, the hairs more abundant on the sides of the nerves, mostly densely ciliolate, glandular-dotted, drying rather dark, firm, translucent; petiole 1-1.5 or 2 cm. long, or on lower leaves up to 5 cm., mostly densely crisp-pubescent-tomentose, vaginate at the base; spikes 5-7 mm. thick and up to 8 cm. long but mostly somewhat shorter; peduncle about 10 mm. long, thinly crisp-pubescent glabrescent; bracts round-or triangular-subpeltate, marginally fringed; fruit obovoid, stigmas 3-4, lanceolate, recurved, sessile.
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