Much branched shrub 1-3 m tall; young branchlets with yellowish silky hairs. Leaf-blade up to 120 mm in diam., suborbicular to broadly elliptic, apex rounded, slightly cor­date at the base, sometimes asymmetric, mar­gin serrate, sparsely pubescent, green and finely reticulate above, grey pubescent or vil­lous below, veins prominent and reticulate; petiole up to 40 mm long, setulose-pubescent; stipules 5-12 mm long, ovate to broadly oblanceolate, pubescent, submembranous. Inflorescences leaf-opposed or frequently aris­ing some distance from the node; peduncles up to 5 mm long, pubescent; pedicels similar, up to 3 mm long, bracts about 7 mm long, ovate, similar to the stipules. Buds globose to oblong-globose. Sepals 5-9 mm long, linear-lanceolate, silky pubescent outside, slightly pubescent and yellow inside. Petals yellow, about half the length of the sepals, oblong or obovate-oblong, with a basal nectariferous claw circumvillous within but not extended above into a narrow ledge, nectary and lami­na of about equal length, pubescent behind the n