Shrubs, dimensions unknown. Stems with some vestiges of thin, curly hairs and also with long and thicker hairs, prickles rather many, small. Leaves ovate, not lobed, 7-8 by 5-6 cm, base subtruncate, margin serrate, apex acute, herbaceous, nervation pedate with 7 pairs of nerves, venation transverse, both sides with long (semi-)appressed hairs on the nerves and fewer on and between the veins. Petiole 1.5 cm long. Stipules elliptic, entire. Inflorescence panicle-shaped, c. 15 cm long and wide, with 4 side branches, rich-flowered, densely patently hairy. Bracts persistent. Pedicels c. 3 mm. Flowers unisexual, flower buds ovoid. Hypanthium cupular, c. 5.5 mm across, densely hairy outside. Sepals broadly ovate, pointed, outer ones 5 by 4 mm, inner ones narrower, uncovered margins with one short tooth, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals persistent, elliptic, 3.5 by 2 mm. Stamens not seen, staminodes in female flowers c. 60, glabrous. Pistils 14, ovaries long-hairy on the back near the apex, on little elevated, hairy torus, style c. 2.5 mm long, hairy at base. Collective fruits not known. Fruits c. 2.5 by 1.5 mm.
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