Small tree or leaning shrub, 4-6 m high. Twigs thick, densely tomentose. Leaves pseudoverticillate, but between the whorls the scars of fallen spirally arranged leaves visible in at least one collection, rather densely hairy beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, ± elliptic, acute to acuminate with cuneate base (the very base truncate) and sharply dentate margin, 13-20 by 5-9½ cm; nerves 10-17 pairs; petiole with same indument as twigs, very thick, 7-20 mm. Flowers in a fascicle or spike to 2 cm from the axils of the leaves or from wood. Bracts and bracteoles persistent, densely redbrown sericeous, c. 5 mm and c. 3 mm respectively. Calyx appressedly redbrown hairy, 2-2½ mm, the lobes ± ovate, acute, 1½-2 mm. Corolla 3-4 mm. Stamens c. 40 in ♂ flowers (according to SLEUMER l.c. absent in ♀ flowers). Disk pilose. Ovary glabrous, ½-1 mm high; style reduced in ♂ flowers, in ♀ flowers 3½ rnm (according to SLEUMER l.c.). Fruit globose to ampulliform, c. 8 by 6 mm, the stone ribbed. Seed 1, curved with curved embryo.
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