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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 12 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, rusty stellate tomentose when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 1-8 cm long, terete, stellately tomentose; lamina 4-21 x 2-18 cm, suborbicular to ovate with obtuse apex or palmately shallowly 3-lobed, base rounded or cuneate, margin crenulate, sparsely stellately tomentose on both sides, reddish when young; palmately 5-nerved at base; midrib raised above; tertiary_nerves distantly horizontally_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicle, many flowered; flowers yellow, pedicel up to 1.5 cm long; epicalyx accrescent. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Schizocarp, indehiscent ca. 0.5 cm long, shortly beaked, densely covered with stellate and simple hairs; seeds 4, reniform. |