Large shrub or small tree to 9 m high; stems usually less than 30 cm d.b.h.; wood soft, young stems hollow or with copious pith. Indumentum of thick, ferruginous, strigose hairs on the branchlets, petioles, abaxial leaf veins and inflorescence. Leaves: lamina obovate or elliptical, c. 10–26 cm long, 4–8.5 cm wide, covered with short, stiff hairs (the hairs dense on abaxial veins, more scattered but larger adaxially), parallel veins and cross veins prominent, margin serrate, with numerous fine teeth having hair-like apices; petiole 12–18 mm long. Inflorescence a (1–) 3–5-flowered cyme, shorter than the leaves; peduncles solitary, in the upper axils, 12–30 mm long, bracteate; bracts narrow-linear, 9–12 mm long; pedicels c. 7 mm long. Calyx densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside, with lobes 7–9 mm long, persistent and ± enclosing the fruit at maturity. Petals glabrous, oblong, 12–14 mm long, up to twice as long as the sepals, white or pale pink. Stamens numerous; filaments broad, frequently connate in the outer ring; inner stamens free; anthers oblong, opening in longitudinal slits. Styles 5 or fewer, connate near the base. Ovary glabrous, 5-celled, 3–4 mm diam. Fruit globular, 5–10 mm diam., purplish, viscous. Seeds very numerous, small, 0.5–0.7 mm long; testa prominently reticulate with raised ridges.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows to 6 m high. The leaves are simple and 10-26 cm long. Both sides are hairy. The fruit are 5-15 mm across. The occur singly in the axils of leaves or on mature branches. There are many small seeds. These occur in a clear sticky fluid. The fruit is edible.
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