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| Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees up to 4 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, stellate_scaly. |
| Leaves : | Leaves usually alternate, spiral, sometimes subopposite; stipules subulate, caducous; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long, canaliculate, stellate_scaly; lamina 7-18 x 1.8-4.5 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex narrowly long acuminate, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous, densely silvery stellate_scaly beneath; stipitate glands 1-2 pairs at the junction of petiole and lamina; secondary_nerves 5-10 pairs, lower most pair opposite and acute in angle; tertiary_nerves broadly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in terminal racemes, clothed with silvery scales; flowers unisexual, monoecious. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule ovoid-oblong, slightly 3-lobed, reddish-brown stellate; seeds 3. |