Suffrutex or small branched shrub 0·6–1·2(3·6) m. tall. Branches reddish-brown, cylindric, ± densely puberulous with somewhat crisped hairs mixed with longer patent ones. Petiole 1–4 cm. long, robust, canaliculate above, ± densely hispidous or puberulous and scrofulous to glabrescent. Juvenile leaves papyraceous with faint venation, the adult ones subcoriaceous or coriaceous, discolorous when dried (dull green or brownish above, yellowish-green, ochraceous or ferrugineous beneath), sparsely to very densely hispid mainly on the midrib and lateral nerves on both surfaces, ± densely and softly scrofulous-glandular (glandular hairs small, many-branched, yellowish, shining) below and not so densely so above, entire, rarely crenate in the upper part; median-leaflet 3·8–11 × 1·7–5 cm., elliptic, obovate to broadly obovate, sometimes oblanceolate, obtuse or subobtuse or rounded or acute at the apex and cuneate at the base and sometimes petiolulate, the lateral ones 1·8–7·5 × 0·9–4 cm., sessile, obovate, obtuse at the apex and asymmetric at the base; midrib, lateral nerves and reticulation raised on both surfaces, more strongly so below. Panicles terminal and axillary (in the upper leaf-axils) usually longer than the leaves, making in all a large terminal leafy inflorescence up to 30 × 25 cm.; axis and pedicels hispid and lepidote-glandular. Male flowers: calyx-segments 0·75–1 mm. long, ovate, hispid; petals 1·5 mm. long, oblong. Drupe brown, shining, up to 4 mm. in diam., globose, glabrous.
