Erect shrub or small tree (0.15)0.9–3 m tall with ± spreading slender branches, or suffrutex with 1–several shoots from a woody rootstock; branchlets slender, densely velvety with appressed pale ferruginous hairs when young, later with sparser hairs or glabrescent.Leaves paired, or occasionally in whorls of 3; blades 2–11 × 0.5–3.3(4.6) cm, oblong-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, or less often linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute at the apex, cuneate to subcordate at the base, occasionally somewhat unequal, slightly to distinctly discolorous, glabrescent, somewhat scabrid-pubescent or densely pubescent above, densely velvety tomentose beneath with appressed pale ferruginous or grey hairs; petiole 3–6 mm long; stipules joined into a sheath 1–2 mm long at base with linear apices 2–4(8) mm long.Flowers several to 15, in shortly pedunculate subglobose dense velvety hairy congested cymes; peduncles 2–7 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long; bracts 4–7 × 1–5 mm, elliptic to lanceolate.Calyx densely pale ferruginous hairy; tube 1–2 mm long; lobes 1.5–8(10) mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate.Corolla with distinct tails up to 2 mm long in bud; pale yellow or greenish-white, densely ferruginous-hairy or tomentose, tube 4–5 mm long, ± cylindrical; lobes 4–5 mm long (including caudate appendages c. 2 mm long) 1.2–2 mm wide, elliptic to lanceolate.Ovary 3–5-locular; style exserted c. 1.5 mm; pollen presenter 0.8 mm long, subcylindric to coroniform, sulcate.Fruits yellow or orange-brown to reddish when ripe, 8–9 mm in diameter, subglobose, crowned with the persistent calyx, ferruginous-velvety tomentose and with longer hairs; pyrenes 1–5.
