Branching shrublet c. 0·6 m. tall, densely covered in all the herbaceous parts with a greyish-tomentellous indumentum intermingled, particularly on the stems, petioles and nerves on the under surface of the leaves, with longer stellate-ferruginous hairs. Leaf-lamina up to 11 × 5 cm., oblong, narrowly ovate-oblong or ovate, somewhat discolorous, apex obtuse or rarely acute, margin serrate or crenate, base rounded; petiole up to 2·5 cm. long. Flowers yellow, 1–3 together on axillary peduncles up to 9 cm. long; pedicels 0·5–1·5 cm. long, fasciculate. Epicalyx-bracts 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 cm., very broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate at the apex, subcordate at the base, densely greyish-white-tomentose. Sepals of 2/3 or equalling the length of the epicalyx, lanceolate-acuminate, tomentose. Petals about the same length as the sepals, very broadly obovate. Stamens connate for 1–2 mm. below; filaments flattened, 1–2 mm. long; anthers lanceolate, 2–5 mm. long; staminodes c. 7 mm. long, linear or lorate. Ovary ovoid, tomentose; style 1–3 mm. long; stigmas linear, recurved. Fruit slightly shorter than the sepals, ovoid, tomentose. Seeds c. 6 per loculus, c. 2 mm. in diam., dark brown, irregularly compressed; testa smooth or occasionally slightly rugose.