Twiggy shrub or small tree 0.6-2(-3) m tall; stems slender, terete, greyish black with age, at first finely glandular-tomentellous, lacking stipitate glands or long multicellular hairs. Leaves rather small, petiolate; blade ovate-rotund to rotund, 12-30(-55) x 10-30(-50) mm, finely glandular-scabrous above, densely glandular-tomentellous beneath, the undersurface being obscured by a short cobwebby tomentum lacking stipitate glands, the nerves often fairly prominent, apex rounded, base truncate to subcordate, margin crenate to deeply crenate-dentate; petiole 4-15 mm long. Inflorescence appearing after most of the leaves are shed, consisting of spikes or small panicles borne terminally and in the axils of the upper leaves; flower spikes dense, the male 10-20(-25) mm long, the female shorter; bracts broadly ovate, acute, 1.5-1.75 x 1.5-2 mm. Calyx c. 1 mm long. Corolla white to mauve, c. 2 mm long. Disc 1(-2)-lobed.
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