Small spreading bush or shrub up to 5 m tall; young branches brown tomentellous, latÂer glabrescent with purplish brown bark. Leaf-blade up to 70 x 37 mm, oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, apex acute or obtuse, base rounded and often somewhat asymmetric, margin serrate, rather shining, dark green (or bronze in dried specimens) minutely and sparsely stellate-puberulent above, whitish or very pale brownish tomentose below with prominent nerves; petiole up to 5 mm long, whitish or brownish tomentose; stipules up to 6 mm long, very caducous, subulate, tomenÂtellous. Inflorescences apparently axillary, usually 3-flowered; peduncles up to 15 mm long, tomentose; pedicels similar, about 10 mm long; bracts very caducous, not seen. Sepals about 9 x 1,5 mm, linear-oblong, apex acute or subacute, tomentose outside, 3-nerved, glabrous within. Petals yellow, about I the length of the sepals, narrowly obovate-ob-long, basal nectariferous claw not wider than the base of the blade, about 1 mm long, cir-cumvillous within but not very densely so. Androgynophore with a basal glabrous porÂtion 1 mm long, tomentose at the apex but scarcely produced beyond the basal glabrous portion. Ovary 4-lobed, densely villous; style 3-5 mm long, glabrous, stigma-lobes broad. Fruit (slightly immature) 9 mm in diam., very deeply 4-lobed, tomentellous and with longer brownish hairs.
