Shrub or tree to 7 m tall; twigs pulverulent-tomentose with small, pauciradiate stellae which have a yellowish or brownish cast. Leaves to 15 cm long and 4 cm broad, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, acuminate at each end, margins slightly revolute, above bright, dark green, shiny, scabrous with dispersed, sessile, porrect stellae, beneath tomentose with stalked porrect stellae; petiole very short, merging gradually into the elongate leaf base; minor leaves wanting. Inflorescence a long-stalked cyme standing well above the foliage, the peduncle 5-12 cm long, branching near the apex, densely pulverulent-tomentose with mostly porrect stellae; pedicels 2-5 mm long, angled, articulating in fruit at about the middle, tomentose, drying with sharp angles. Flowers small, white, drying yellow; calyx 1 cm across, deeply lobed; filaments glabrous, the anthers 3 mm long; ovary and lower portion of the style tomentose. Fruits 8-10 mm across, pubescent; seeds 1.5-2 mm across.
Occasional to common in secondary growth thickets of humid lowland tropical forests, usually near the coast or inland along major rivers: at elevations up to 1,000 metres.
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