Round-headed shrub 2-3 m. tall with many slender woody branches. Lvs c. 6 × 3 cm., oval, entire, obtuse, on petioles c. 1 cm. long; margins not recurved; upper surface glab. except for minute hairs in groove of midrib, veins depressed; lower surface blue-green becoming buff when dry, closely covered with sessile stellate hairs, veins slightly prominent with longer hairs, some of them simple. Infl. a much-branched close corymb with rounded top up to 10 cm. across; bracts broad, brown, scarious; pedicels c. 3 mm. long. Fls yellow; calyx-tube villous with simple and long-rayed sessile stellate hairs; sepals 2*5 mm. long, falling early; petal-limb cuneate to truncate at base, soon reflexed; stamens > petals, connective not elongated above anther; style divided to 1/2 length; capsule rounded 3*5 × 2*5 mm., c. ? immersed in calyx-tube, retaining indumentum and greyish colour; operculum c. 1/2 length of coccus; seeds dark brown, shining, c. 1·6 × 1 mm.

n = 12, 12 + f

n = 12 + f

2n = 24 + f

n = 12, 12 + f

2n = 24

2n = 24

Erect shrub to 2.5 m high. Adult and juvenile lvs petiolate; lamina 20-80 × 10-40 mm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate; upper surface glabrous except for scattered simple hairs around sunken midrib; lower surface with fine grey stellate tomentum and scattered simple or large stellate hairs on veins; margins entire, not revolute; stipules 2-3 mm long, deciduous. Infl. a much-branched, dense, terminal corymb. Calyx reflexing, pale green; tube with dense, long, white, simple hairy covering until after anthesis. Petals yellow; limb broad. Anthers oblong. Ovary with stellate hairs at apex, almost wholly immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying c. 1/2 of their inner faces.