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Leaves alternate, with the lamina 7·5–17(20) × 4–7·5(9·5) cm., ovate or elliptic, rarely elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute or rounded at the apex, denticulate at the margin, broadly cuneate, rounded or cordate at the base, hairy on both faces but more so below, the hairs short, stiff and spreading; midrib and lateral nerves (7–11) ± prominent on both sides, the veins conspicuously reticulate beneath; petiole up to 5(10) mm. long, covered by short hairs and provided with 2 glands at the apex.
Inflorescence up to 2 cm. long, ± 7-flowered, occurring at the end of the branches; pedicels (4)7–18 mm. long, hairy; bracts 5·5 × 3·5 mm., ovate, soon caducous.
Ovary 4–5 mm. in diameter, globose, densely hairy, borne on a gynophore c. 5 mm. long; styles up to 3 mm. long; stigmas c. 2·5 mm. broad, fleshy.
Old branches covered with fleshy longitudinally fissured cork, the young ones hairy, the hairs short, stiff, golden-yellow or reddish-brown.
Sepals up to 1·9 × 1·3 cm., unequal, elliptic or broadly ovate, obtuse at the apex, rounded at the base, densely sericeous outside.
Stamens 10–16, with filaments 1·2 cm. long and anthers 2·5–3·5 mm. long, elongate-oblong, with the connective minutely apiculate.
Petals up to 18 × 6 mm. with claw c. 4 mm. long, narrowly elliptic-spathulate, greenish-white or yellowish-white, glabrous.
Capsule 3·3 × 3–4 cm., rounded at the apex, contracted at the base into a stipe c. 1 cm. long, minutely pubescent.
Seeds up to 9 mm. long, included in a cup-shaped aril with serrulate margin.
Small tree or shrub up to 8 m. high producing flowers before leaves.
Corona up to 3 mm. high, densely hairy.
Flowers hermaphrodite.
