Shrub or small tree 3–12(–24) m. tall. Older branches grey barked. lenticellate; young shoots finely but often densely pubescent with short spreading tawny hairs (some up to 0.5–0.8 mm. long). Leaf-blades elliptic to ovate, (5–)10–14(–19) cm. long, (2.3–)3–5(–8) cm. wide, firm, glabrous, asymmetric and very briefly rounded at base, acute or very slightly acuminate, glandular-crenulate or glandular-serrulate, on each side of midrib with 7–10 secondary nerves which are prominulent beneath; petioles only ± 3 mm. long. Stipules up to 13 mm. long, subulate, glabrescent, caducous. Inflorescences (5–)8–20-flowered, congested but divaricate-cymose, ± 2 cm. long and thick excluding peduncles; peduncles minutely and densely hairy, 2–6 cm. long; pedicels 3–7(–10) mm. long in flower, averaging somewhat longer (± 10–15, rarely to 20 mm.) in fruit, minutely and densely hairy. Flowers whitish. Cup densely pubescent externally with short whitish spreading hairs. Sepals ± 3 mm. long, widely spreading at anthesis. Petals oblanceolate, whitish, ± 2 mm. long, widely spreading at anthesis. Disk glabrous, green. Style ± 2 mm. long, 3-partite less than half the length. Fruit sub-globose, ± 6–10 mm. thick, densely hairy with tawny sericeous hairs. Fig. 2.
