Shrubs, the branchlets stout, angular, ferrugineous hirsute. Leaves ovate or oblong, 14-22 cm long, 7-9 cm wide, falcately acuminate, cordate at the base, the costa prominent beneath, the lateral veins 17-20, widely spreading and de-pressed arcuate, uniting submarginally to form a distinct undulate vein, stiffly chartaceous, concolorous, drying chocolate red; petioles to 5 cm long, ferrugin-eous hirsute; stipules deciduous, oblong, ca. 1.5 cm long, obtuse, ferrugineous hirsute. Inflorescences terminal, ferrugineous hirsute, 3 cm long, wider than long, the peduncle to 2 cm long, the branches 5, radiate, 1-2 cm long, the cymules densely flowered, usually 3 per branch, ca. 1 cm in diam., the bracts not seen. Flowers sessile, the calyx cup shaped, to 1 mm long, densely puberulent, the lobes oblong, 1.0-1.5 mm long. Fruits not seen.
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