Trema tomentosa var. aspera

Shrub or small tree to 8 m tall. Leaves papery to leathery; lamina broadly ovate to lanceolate, 2–8 cm long, light green, rough above, smoother and paler beneath; margins serrate to minutely serrate; apex acuminate; base cordate to rounded, symmetric to asymmetric; nerves in 3–8 pairs, the lowest pair frequently giving a 3-nerved appearance; petiole 3–6 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, c. 5 mm long. Inflorescence few–many-flowered, to c. 4 cm long. Flowers globose, c. 2 mm diam.; perianth persistent. Drupe ovoid, 2–4 mm long, black.  Flowers summer.