Erect-growing many-branched shrub up to 4 m. tall. Lvs 5-7 × 2-3 cm., oval, minutely crenulate, on petioles c. 1 cm. long; margins ± recurved; upper surface wrinkled, with scattered stellate hairs when young; lower surface fully clothed with felted sessile stellate hairs with scattered stalked stellate hairs overtopping them; nerves prominent with similar hairs. Infl. ± pyramidal, fl.-clusters lateral and terminal on lfless branchlets c. 10 cm. long; bracts narrow, mealy-hairy; pedicels 2*5-4 mm. long. Fls pale green, c. 6 mm. diam.; calyx-tube stellatehairy, mealy; speals c. 2 mm. long; petals 0; stamens < sepals; style divided to > 1/2 length; capsule c. 1/2 immersed in calyx-tube, with persistent sepals; operculum > 3/4 length of coccus; seeds dark, not shining, c. 1·5 × 1 mm.

Erect shrub to 4 m high, stellate-tomentose. Petiole of adult lvs to c. 1 cm long. Lamina 50-70 × 20-30 mm (juvenile lvs often larger), narrow- to broad-elliptic, rugose; upper surface stellate-hairy; lower surface with stellate tomentum, some of the hairs stalked; interveinal areas whitish; veins and midrib brown; margins crenulate to denticulate, not or only slightly revolute; apex obtuse to acute; stipules 4-10 mm long, subulate, soon deciduous. Infl. an open, much-branched, pyramidal panicle to c. 20 cm long with fls mainly terminal. Calyx glabrous inside, pale green; lobes c. 2 mm long, spreading to reflexed. Petals 0. Anthers oblong. Ovary with tuft of white, long-rayed, stellate hairs at apex, wholly immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. c. 2 mm diam., globular, blackish; cocci opening by opercula occupying > 3/4 of their inner faces.