Shrub or small tree up to 7 m. tall; young branches pale brownish-stellate-pubescent with some caducous longer hairs, later glabrescent and grey-brown. Leaf-lamina 4–10 × 2·5–5·5 cm., lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; apex acuminate or acute, margin repand-dentate to shallowly crenate (especially towards the apex), base rounded or slightly cordate, ± symmetrical, upper surface with sparsely scattered minute stellate hairs and with a pubescent midrib, lower surface patently pilose with rather prominent nerves; petiole up to 6 mm. long, pubescent. Inflorescences paniculate, terminal or axillary, all parts except the pedicels and flowers themselves with a fine brownish or cream tomentum interspersed with much longer patent hairs; peduncles c. 4 mm. long; pedicels c. 3 mm. long; basal bracts deeply bifid or trifid. Sepals 6–7·5 mm. long, oblong-spathulate, involute in the upper half, boat-shaped, with slightly undulate margins, creamy-velvety outside, pubescent within. Petals white with a triangular lamina 1·75 mm. long, pilose inside and outside, and with a basal nectariferous claw tomentose at the back and around the margin within. Androgynophore 1 mm. long, glabrous, not produced. Ovary ovoid, tomentose, not lobed but somewhat triangular in section, 3-locular with c. 4 ovules per loculus; style 3–5 mm. long, stellate-pilose except towards the apex; stigma no wider than the style.
