Shrub, 3 m. Twigs densely spreadingly long-hairy, hairs to 3 mm. Leaves long-hairy on both surfaces, ovate to elliptic with rounded to sub-cordate base, dentate, long-ciliate margin and acuminate apex, 6-14 by 2½-5cm; nerves 7-8 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein; petiole 3-5 mm. Inflorescence a fascicle (or flowers solitary?) or raceme to 10cm; axis long-hairy. Bracts and bracteoles soon caducous, to 7 mm long, narrowly elliptic clothed with long hairs. Pedicels from ?5 mm in fascicles to 13 mm in racemes. Calyx entirely divided into the narrow-elliptic to linear, 4-6 mm long pubescent lobes. Corolla c. 6 mm. Stamens c. 100. Disk pilose. Ovary obscured by the 3 mm long hairs, 1½ mm high; style glabrous, c. 8 mm. Fruit ± cylindrical, densely long-hairy, crowned by the persistent calyx (only young fruits seen).
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