Habitat: in the forest.Botany: shrub, 3-6 m tall; stems hispid or glabrate, trichomes moderately short, rigid, directed outward or ascending, often more dense about the nodes, of varying lengths; petioles 3-8 mm long; leaves 8-20 cm long, 4-9 cm wide, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, obliquely inequilateral, acute, longer side obtuse to rounded at base, drying very dark, pustular-scabrous above, with longer stiff trichomes on veins, lower surface with obscure glandular dots, with long straight trichomes mostly restricted to veins, the intervenous areas glabrous or with shorter, less conspicuous trichomes, the major lateral veins in 4-6 pairs, mostly in basal half; spikes mucronate, mostly 9-12 cm long in fruit, ca 3 cm wide; peduncles usually 10 mm long; bracts triangular to round, sparsely short-ciliolate; cilia shorter than width of bract; fruits glandular-dotted, obovoid, ± truncate, usually puberulent at apex; stigmas 3, minute, sessile; flowering in the dry season and the early rainy season; fruiting in the rainy season.