Spreading much-branched shrub or small tree, height up to 5 m. Young shoots with brownish indumentum, later becoming glabrous. Petioles up to 7 mm. long, practically glabrous when mature. Stipules linear, persistent. Leaf-lamina ± oblanceolate, up to 7 cm. long and 3.2 cm. wide, shortly acuminate or rarely ± obtuse, base tapering and narrowly cuneate, practically glabrous; lateral nerves finely raised on lower surface. Pedicels up to 2.8 cm. long, densely ferrugineously pubescent. Outer calyx-lobes narrowly ovate, 6.5–8 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide, with dense ferrugineous pubescence outside; inner lobes oblong-lanceolate, a little smaller and with paler pubescence. Corolla creamish to pale yellow; outer segments ± oblong-lanceolate, up to 7 mm. long; median segment ligulate, erect, 5–7 mm. long; tube up to 2 mm. long. Filaments tapering and ± flattened, up to 2.5 mm. long; staminodes narrowly ovate, up to 4 mm. long, closely adjacent and ± connate at base. Ovary densely pilose; style up to 9 mm. long. Fruit ± ovoid with short terminal rostrum, up to 4 cm. in diameter, indumentum rubbing off and skin becoming practically glabrous. Seeds up to 2.8 cm. in diameter, with lateral hilum and large spreading scar covering over half of surface area. Fig. 12.