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A large shrub or small tree. It grows to 7 m high. The young branches often have short hairs. The leaves are oval and 8 cm long by 4 cm wide. There are 3 veins from the base. The leaves are dark green and have greyish hairs underneath. The edges of the leaves have fine teeth. The flowers are yellow and small. They occur in dense heads in the axils of leaves. The fruit is oval and 10 mm long by 8 mm wide. They are reddish-brown when mature.
Leaf-lamina 3·8–8 × 1·7–4 cm., ovate, elliptic or narrowly ovate, apex rounded to acute or subacuminate, base rounded to cuneate often slightly asymmetric, margin serrulate, 3-nerved from the base, greyish-puberulous to glabrous above, greyish-pubescent or glabrous except for main veins below; petiole 2–6(9) mm., pubescent; stipules narrowly ovate to subulate, up to 3–5 mm. long.
Cymes subsessile or with a peduncle up to 4 mm. long, tomentose; pedicels up to 3 mm. long, tomentose.
Small tree up to 10(20) m. tall; young branchlets pubescent later glabrescent.
Petals spathulate, 1·5 mm. long and 0–5 to 1 mm. wide in expanded portion.
Sepals 1·5 mm. long, dentate, pubescent outside.
Seeds reddish-brown, 6 × 4 mm., plano-convex.
Ovary 2-locular; style 2-fid, 1 mm. long.
Disk 5-lobed, up to 2 mm. in diam.
Stamens with filaments 2 mm. long.
Fruit ovoid, 10 × 8 mm.
