Herb, woody below, or suffrutex, perennial, the stem often decumbent, up to 1 m long, the younger parts softly stellate-subtomentellous. Leaves distichous, short-petiolate, the petiole 4-7 mm long, stellate-subtomentellous, the stipules linear-subulate, equalling more or less the petiole, hirsute, at length caducous; blade broadly ovate to ovate, subrhombic or oblong, more or less oblique or obtuse at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, serrate above the base at the margin, up to 4 cm long and 2.3 cm broad, nearly concolorous, 3-or 5-palminerved, the upper surface stellate-puberulus, the lower surface pale, stellate-tomentellous to densely stellate-puberulus, and with the primary and secondary veins prominent. Flowers solitary in the axils, often with another flower or a short flowering branch (this often very short, simulating a small glomerule) appearing later in the same axils, the pedicel short, 2-4 mm long, inarticulated, stellate-subtomentellous; calyx cam-panulate, subplicate-5-angulate, lobed to below the middle, 6-7.5 mm long, 10-ribbed, stellate-subtomentellous, moderately accrescent, the lobes triangular, gradually long-acuminate; petals obovate-cuneate, strongly oblique, 6-7 mm long and ca 4 mm broad, white; androecium 4.5-5 mm long, the staminal tube ca 3 mm long, inconspicuously puberulus toward the apex; styles ca 5 mm long, connate halfway. Mericarps 5, trigonous, ca 2.5-3 mm long, pergameneous, the dorsum with the lower part rugose-reticulate and glabrous, and with the upper part mi-nutely stellate-tomentellous and with 2 longitudinal low crests, each terminating into a short beak up to 0.8 mm long, the lateral walls fragile, reticulate; seeds trigonous, ca 1.5 mm long, minutely puberulus only around the hilum.
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