Shrub or tree to 10 m tall; twigs pulverulent with very fine, almost granular, echinoid hairs, often with a yellowish cast. Leaves large, to 50 cm long and 40 cm broad, broadly ovate or elliptical, short-acuminate apically, rounded or short-acuminate basally, above scabridulous with tiny, dispersed, sessile stellae, beneath fine-tomentose with larger (still small) stalked stellae; petioles 4-12 cm long; minor leaves mostly wanting. Inflorescence a long stalked cyme standing well