Shrub or treelet to 10 m. Twigs densely patently dark brown hairy. Leaves narrowly elliptic, sparsely (appressedly) long-hairy beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, rarely also long-hairy above, with rounded to acute base, 6-27 by 2½-8 cm, margin often sharply glandular dentate, appressedly long-hairy beneath; nerves 6-11 pairs; petiole 2-10 mm. Spike contracted, branched, axis densely more or less appressedly villous, hairs 1-4 mm. Bracts and bracteoles appressedly dark brown long-hairy, narrowly elliptic to ovate, sometimes caudate, 1-7 mm. Calyx densely appressedly dark brown hairy, entirely divided into 1½-4 mm long lobes. Corolla 3-6 mm. Stamens 30 to more than 100. Disk pilose. Ovary with same indument as calyx, 1-1½ mm high; style with pilose base. Fruits hairy, pink.
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