Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark white, smooth, lenticellate; blaze whitish. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets terete with glandular stinging hairs. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule caducous and leaving scar; petiole 2-6 cm long, terete, with glandular stinging hairs; lamina 9.5-34 x 2-11.5 cm, narrow oblanceolate to elliptic, apex acuminate, base attenuate-cuneate to obtuse, margin subentire or crenulate, coriaceous, with glandular stinging hairs; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-11 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, drooping, to 20 cm long; flowers unisexual, subsessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Achenes. |