Perennial small tree with spreading crown, bark grayish-white, young parts covered with yellow, stellate pubescence; leaves roundish or broadly ovate, obliquely rounded or cordate, usually 5-nerved at base, subacuminate apex, often sublobate, softly tomentose on both surfaces, becoming less hairy at maturity, margins irregularly toothed, surface hoary beneath; petioles hairy, thickened at the top; stipules subulate, ensiform, nearly as long as the petioles; flowers small, pubescent outside, in umbellate cymes, peduncles axillary, 2-7 flowered, sometimes longer than petiole, bracts linear; sepals oblong-lanceolate, whitish-tomentose outside, reddish-brown or yellowish inside; petals linear oblong, yellow, emarginated, half as the length of sepals, glandular at base; stamens many on a raised torus, staminodes absent; ovary 2-4 celled, many ovuled; style equalling the stamens, stigma lobed; fruit drupe, globose or indistinctly 1-2 lobed, pilose, containing 1-2 albuminous seeds.