Shrub or small tree, 1.5–6 m tall, sometimes scrambling; branches slender, densely pale ferruginous-hairy on young parts but soon glabrescent or glabrous and revealing fissured ± purplish-brown bark.Leaves paired; blades 1.5–9.5 × 1–4.4 cm, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, rounded to acute at the apex, ± rounded at the base, discolorous, green with appressed ± ferruginous hairs above, densely velvety beneath with silvery to pale ferruginous hairs, the main nervation usually slightly darker ferruginous; petiole 1–2 mm long; stipules 8 mm long, linear-lanceolate, deciduous.Flowers in 3–several-flowered cymes, ferruginous pubescent; peduncles 4 mm long; lower bracts small, upper bracts ± leaf-like, up to 7 × 2 mm, lanceolate; pedicels obsolete.Calyx densely pale ferruginous-pilose; tube 1.2 mm long; lobes 2.5–6 × 0.4–1 mm, linear to lanceolate, sometimes slightly spathulate.Corolla capitate, acute or apiculate at the apex in bud; pale green, creamy-green or white, densely ferruginous hairy; tube 11–12.5 mm long, slender, cylindrical; lobes 3–4 × 1–2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, shortly apiculate.Anthers 1.1–1.5 mm long, shortly exserted.Style 11–13 mm long; pollen presenter 1.2 mm long, coroniform.Fruits orange-yellow, subglobose, 1–1.3 cm in diameter with 2–5 pyrenes, sulcate in dry state, densely ferruginous-tomentose with short and longer hairs; pyrenes reddish-brown, up to 9 × 5.5 mm, rugose.
