Shrub or small tree, up to 5 m. high, the branches densely hirsutulous to nearly glabrous; leaves elliptic-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate-ovate, 7-15 cm. long, 3-9 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, cuneate or rounded at base, entire, appressed-pubescent above with stiff scattered hairs, more or less pilosulous beneath, especially on the nerves and at the margin; petioles slender, 2-8 cm. long; glomerules androgynous, rarely unisexual, few-flowered, the staminate flowers 4-merous.
Wet, lowland, evergreen formations. Thickets, swamps, along water courses, limestone rocky areas, semi-deciduous woodland, subtropical moist forest, roadsides; at elevations up to 1,500 metres.
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