Shrub to 3 m; young branches with strigose appressed hairs. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, up to 17 by 4.2 cm, base truncate or rounded, apex shortly apiculate, margin dentate, when dry grey above, brown below, principal veins prominent, pubescence persisting on the lower midrib and main veins; petiole to 5 mm, hairy. ?Dioecious. Inflorescences axillary or above the axils, sessile fascicles of c. 12 flowers, pedicels slender, densely strigose, c. 15 mm. Male receptacle discoid or bowl-shaped, the stamens in a small central cavity, c. 8 mm Ø, pubescent on the outer surface of the disc; tepals 4; stamens 4, c. 1 mm broad, with a very short broad filament, connective expanded as two wings bordering the small narrow anthers. Female flowers not seen, but fewer per inflorescence. Fruiting receptacle slightly enlarged, not succulent, on stout pedicel c. 15 mm, upper surface with long hairs between the bases of the apparently sessile achenes. Drupes c. 13 by 9 mm with a few persistent appressed hairs.
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