Small trees, 4-5 m tall; branches ferruginous pubescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm, densely ferruginous pubescent; blade drying leathery, elliptic-oblong or ovate-elliptic, 8.5-17 × 4.5-8.5 cm, adaxially sparsely strigose except densely ferruginous pubescent along veins, abaxially densely ferruginous pubescent, base cuneate, acute, or sometimes obtuse, apex acuminate; secondary veins 8-13 pairs; stipules pandurate, 4-5 mm wide, pilosulous, apex spreading to reflexed. Inflorescences paniculate, ca. 19 × 15 cm, ferruginous pubescent; bracts ovate, ca. 1 mm. Flowers sessile. Calyx glabrous or pilose; hypanthium portion ca. 0.8 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes semiorbicular, ca. 0.5 mm. Corolla pale green, outside glabrous; tube 1-1.5 mm, white hirsute in throat; lobes ca. 1 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsules not seen. Fl. Dec.
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