Shrubs or trees, to 5 m. Stems glabrous or glabrate. Leaves deciduous; petiole 1.5-6 mm; blade 9-52 mm, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely villous along midrib. Pedicels 2-16 mm, glabrous. Flowers: sepals glabrous; ovary sparsely strigose.

Flowering Apr-Jun. Floodplain forests, low pine woodlands and savannas, glades; 10-100 m; Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., S.C.