Trees to 5 m tall, the branchlets terete, ultimately angular, drying ashen grey, often rimose, short and angular ascending, to 9 cm long, glabrous, branching dichotomously. Leaves ovate, 4.0-7.5 cm long, 2.0-4.5 cm wide, deltoid or ob-tuse at the apex, at the base cordate, obtuse or rounded, usually auriculate, the costa prominulous or plane above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 7-8, widely arcuate, the intervenal areas reticulate, papyraceous, shiny and glabrous above, moderately white villous beneath or with a few elongate hairs on the costa and the veins; petioles slender, 3-6 mm long, pubescent; stipules ovate triangular, 7 mm long, drying brown, puberulent outside. Inflorescences terminal, the flow-ers aggregated into a hemispherical head to 1.5 cm wide. Flowers (buds only seen) subsessile; hypanthium short, the teeth evanescent; corolla 4 mm long, rounded at the apex. Fruits sessile, subrotund, glabrate, 3 cm in diam.; seeds semiorbicular.
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