Small tree 5 m high, 3 cm dbh. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3; petiole 10-20 mm long, colleters minute or linear and densely packed together in the axils; blade narrowly obovate (sometimes elliptic), 6.2-16 by 1.5-5.2 cm, (2.6-)3.1-4.1 times as long as wide, apex shortly acuminate with a blunt point, base acute to decurrent onto the petiole, glabrous on both sides; 12-16 pairs of secondary veins (short interstitial veins present), parallel and slightly arched, forming an angle of 70-80° with the midrib, 3-12 mm from each other, joining near the margin forming a thin submarginal vein; tertiary venation reticulate, usually inconspicuous on both sides. Inflorescence 3-6.5 cm long, many-flowered; pedicels 1-2 mm long, softly pubescent. Bracts and bracteoles sepal-or scale-like, ovate to broadly ovate or triangular 0.4-0.9 mm long, obtuse or acute, ciliate, softly pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Flowers: Sepals connate at the base for 0.75 mm, turbinate, c. 1.7 by 1 mm, apex rounded, ciliate, softly pubescent except at the fused part inside, erect, glaucous when dried. Corolla lobes dextrorse; white, c. 3 mm long in the mature bud and forming an ovoid head, c. 1.5 by 1 mm, partly puberulous on the tube and on the lobe margins outside, blackish when dried; tube almost cylindrical or slightly widening around the stamens, c. 2 by c. 1.2 mm; lobes ovate, c. 2 by 1.1-1.2 mm, pilose with white hairs on basal half inside, ciliate, apex rounded, auriculate at the base on the right side. Stamens inserted at c. 1.3 mm from the base; anthers ovate, c. 0.7 by 0.3 mm, acute. Pistil glabrous, 1.5 mm long; ovary broadly ovoid, 0.4 by 0.6 mm, of 2 carpels, with an annular disk-like thickening at the base 0.15 mm high; style 0.7 mm long; style head ovoid 0.4 by 0.25 mm, with a minute cleft stigmoid apical part c. 0.05 mm high. Fruit unknown.
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