Erect, evergreen shrub, 1-2(-3) m tall, densely and stellately woolly-tomentose on young branches, lower surface of leaves, petioles and peduncles. Leaves opposite, 10-25 (-30) cm long, (2.5-) 5-7.5 cm broad, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, crenate, dark-green and glabrescent above, pale or dull and densely woolly below; petiole (6-)10-15(-20) mm long. Cymes axillary, dense, dichotomously branched, up to 5 cm long, including 1 2.5 cm long peduncles. Flowers c. 4 mm across, pink or reddish. Calyx c. 1.7 mm long, campanulate, minutely 4-toothed, densely pubescent. Corolla c. 2.5 mm long, with tube c. as long as the calyx; limb somewhat 2-lipped, with 4, short lobes. Stamens 4, exserted; anthers c. 0.8 mm long, ovate-oblong. Fruit globose, 2-3 mm in diameter, whitish, with a hard endocarp, usually breaking into four, 1-seeded pyrenes.