Shrubs, straggling or scandent (erect if isolated), 1 • 5-7 m tall, divaricately branched, ultimate branchlets terete to quadrate, striate, tawny or rusty pubescent to densely tomentose, hairs rather long and often stellate, glabrescent. Leaves discolorous, upper surface thinly to densely stellate-tomentose, glabrescent, lower surface persistently thinly to densely stellate-pubescent, deltoid-ovate to ovate, broadest at or near the base and narrowing to a deltoid subacute apex, base truncate, subcordate or wedge-shaped, 1-10 cm long and 0-7-7-5 cm broad; margins irregularly dentate to crenate; veins impressed above, more or less obscure, prominent beneath, at least the lateral obvious; petioles usually patent, 0-3-3 cm long, more or less tomentose, leaf usually decurrent for some distance as a ridge or nanow wing; interpetiolar ridge distinct to prominent. Inflorescence a large, sub-lax, cymose panicle, with innumerable small flowers, peduncles, pedicels and calyces rusty or tawny substellate-tomentose to lanate; bracts deltoid and subulate to linear, spathulate, dorsally tomentose to lanate, 1-4 mm long. Calyx densely tawny or rusty pubescent without, glabrous within, about 2 mm long, lobed almost to the base.
