Deciduous tree 4–16 m tall, sometimes branching from the base; bark very rough, grey or brown, slash pink, watery; ultimate branchlets ridged or smooth, 3–5(–8) mm wide, becoming grey with scattered tuberculate lenticels; bud-scales narrowly triangular, 4–5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide. Leaf-blade obovate, sometimes slightly pandurate, (5–)8–18(–22) cm long, (3–)6–10(–1) cm wide, apex rounded to truncate, subacuminate, base obtuse, rarely truncate or subcordate, papery, glabrous to subscabrid above, tomentellous, subscabrid to glabrescent beneath with small fine pale brown appressed stellate hairs; petiole terete, (1.5–)3–5.5(–8) mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pale brown, subscabrid with indumentum as leaf-blade; stipules caducous. Inflorescences in clusters of 3–13 from the apex of leafless stems, each 4–7 cm long, 1–1.5(–3) cm wide, indumentum of purple, patent hairs, main axis bearing 9–12 short branches, the lowest 0.5–2 cm from the base, 0.3–2.1 cm long, bearing 1–3 partial- peduncles each with 1–3(–5) flowers; bracts narrowly triangular to linear, 4–5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; pedicels 1–5 mm long. Flower perianth widely campanulate, 3–3.5(–7) mm long, 4–4.5(–8.5) mm wide, divided into 4–5(–7) triangular, acute, reflexed lobes 2–2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, the outer surface pink, drying red, with purplish patent stellate hairs, the inner surface greenish white, drying grey, with short white simple hairs. Male flowers with androphore 2–3 mm long. Female flowers with gynophore slightly tapered, 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous, sometimes slightly angular; anthers reduced, ± sessile at ovary base; ovary globose, 2–2.3 mm wide, densely grey-brown tomentose, style 0.5 mm long. Fruit known only from one old, fallen, seedless follicle, elliptic, 9.5 mm long, 7.5 mm wide, 1.5 mm thick, inner surface tomentose, stellate; seed unknown.
