Shrub, twigs loosely tomentose with large, dendritic, stramineous hairs, glabrescent. Leaves broadly elliptic or ovate to 20 cm long, apically acuminate, basally rounded or obtuse and slightly oblique or dimidiate, above velutinous with erect, dendritic, ?viscid hairs, more densely so beneath; the petioles to 3 cm long, shaggy tomentose at least when young; minor leaves ca. '/4 as large as the