Shrub or small tree up to 7.5 m tall; young stems shortly stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate to elliptic-oblong, 4.6–15 cm long, 2.7–8.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, cordate or ± truncate at the base, margin finely evenly serrate, ± glabrous above, scattered minutely stellate-pubescent beneath; petiole 6–12 mm long, stellate-pubescent, sometimes densely so; stipules subulate, 5–10 mm long. Inflorescence a 2–5-flowered terminal or leaf-opposed axillary cyme; peduncle thick, up to 9 mm long; pedicels thick, up to 11 mm long. Flowers pinkish purple; sepals 10–19 mm long; petals obovate to subcircular, 5–12 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Androgynophore glabrous for 1.5–2 mm at the base, pubescent and produced for 1.5–2 mm above the node; stamens 10–14 mm long; filaments pink to mauve; anthers yellow; ovary ± 2.5 mm long, densely hairy; style 5–8 mm long, green. Fruit ± cuboid, 14–25 mm wide, 10–16 mm high, shallowly 4-lobed, covered with a dense rusty brown stellate pubescence. Fig. 3/19 (leaf, p. 9).