Low-growing, ± creeping shrub to 0.5 m high. Adult and juvenile lvs sessile, 10-30 × 7-15 mm, ovate or broad-ovate to oblong; upper surface scabrid with large, rigid, simple hairs; lower surface with dense stellate tomentum, the hairs sessile and stalked, ferruginous on veins; margins sinuate to denticulate, not revolute; stipules 2-3 mm long, deciduous. Infl. a small, few-flowered terminal or subterminal cyme. Calyx cream, ± spreading. Petals 0. Anthers ovoid. Ovary with apical tuft of golden, simple hairs, completely immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying just over 1/2 of their inner faces.
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