Shrubs or small trees. Buds and young branchlets tomentose but sometimes only towards apex, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5--1.8 cm, marginal ridges densely glandular dentate; leaf blade elliptic-ovate to ovate, 5--16 X 2--6 cm, papery, abaxially appressed pilose to tomentose, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin glandular dentate with 6--12 glands per cm, apex acuminate, lateral veins 6--14 pairs and adaxially impressed. Inflorescences a glomerule; bracts and bractlets tomentose at least towards apex; bracts suborbicular, 2--3 mm in diam., margin with large glands; bractlets elliptic, ca. 2 mm, margin with smaller glands than on bract margin. Ovary 0.5--1 mm, glabrous. Calyx lobes semi-orbicular, 1.5--2 mm, glabrous but sometimes margin ciliate. Corolla 3--5 mm. Stamens 20--50. Disc cylindrical, 0.5--1 mm, glabrous. Drupes cylindrical, 8--13 X 2.5--3 mm, apex with persistent erect calyx lobes. Fl. Nov-Dec, fr. Jul-Aug.
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