Branchlets glabrous. Leaves: petiole 5-9 mm long; blade elliptic to weakly obovate, 8-15.2 by 2.4-6.8 cm, 2.1-3.8 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, 9-19 pairs of secondary veins, somewhat prominent, glabrous above and beneath, punctate beneath. Inflorescence axillary and/or terminal, glabrous, 4.4-10.5 cm long, bract position variable; pedicels 2.2-4.4 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1.2-1.8 by 0.7-1 mm, 1.4-2.1 times as long as wide, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous. Corolla yellow or cream; head ovoid, acute in bud, not strongly twisted; tube 5.3-6.1 mm long, 2-2.5 times as long as lobes; lobes oblong, rounded, 2.5-2.6 by 1.4-1.5 mm; glabrous outside, densely pubescent inside. Stamens inserted at 0.3-0.6 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.1 of tube length; anthers 1.4-1.8 by 0.3-0.5 mm. Disk 5-crenate, 0.4-0.5 mm long, 1-1.3 times as long as ovary. Ovaries 0.4-0.5 mm long; style and style head 0.4-0.9 mm long. Fruit of almost parallel follicles, somewhat stipitate, 9-19 cm by 5-6 mm. Seeds: grain 22-24 by 3.1-3.2 mm; beak 8-10.5 mm long; coma 3.4-3.7 cm long.
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