A shrub up to 7 ft. high; branches covered with grey bark, glabrescent; lateral flowering branchlets very short, puberulous. Leaves crowded, obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, attenuated to and obtuse at the base, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad, crenate-serrate, thinly chartaceous or membranous, glabrous except on the pubescent lateral nerves below; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side, distinctly looped and branched well within the margin, prominent on both surfaces, with tufts of hairs in their axils below; tertiary nerves very distant, freely anastomosing; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. long, crisped-pubescent; stipules linear-subulate, keeled on the back, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2 lin. long. Inflorescences bisexual, fasciculate at the ends of short lateral branches, 1 1/2–4 in. long, male flowers numerous in the lower, females 2–4 in the upper part; axis slender, crisped-pubescent. Male buds sparingly puberulous. Female bracts small, 1-flowered. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, ciliate in the upper part. Ovary conspicuously echinate; styles 3, much laciniate, glabrous. Capsule echinate, about 2 1/2 lin. in diam. Seeds rounded, smooth.