Tree to 14.5 m high, bole to 10 m high, to 25 cm in diameter. Branchlets terete, pale brown, len-ticellate, densely puberulous, glabrescent. Stipules filiform, c. 2 mm, sericeous, early caducous. Leaves: rachis 2.5-10 cm, densely puberulous, gland sessile, elliptic, with raised margins, concave, 2-3 mm long; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs, 4-11.5 cm, densely puberulous, glands circular, with raised margins, concave, c. 1 mm in diameter; petiolules c. 3 mm, with patent hairs; leaflets 2-4 pairs per pinna, opposite, chartaceous, drying reddish brown above, light brown beneath, unequal-sided, ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, 4-11 by 2-6.2 cm, base asymmetrically rounded or broadly cuneate, apex acute or acuminate, upper surface scarcely puberulous (by patent white hairs), lower surface hirsute by white hairs; principal lateral veins 5 or 6 per leaflet-half, non-parallel, slightly arching; reticulation prominulous above, raised beneath. Inflorescences terminal, densely puberulous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into a panicle to 20 by 32 cm; glomerules consisting of more than 20 sessile flowers; floral bracts spoon-shaped, obtuse, c. 2 mm, tomentose. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx narrowly funnel-shaped, 5-6 mm, shortly tomentose; teeth triangular, acute, c. 1 mm. Corolla cream, funnel-shaped, 15-18 mm, sericeous, often irregularly split, lobes oblong-linear, acute, 3-5 mm. Stamens cream, to 30 mm; tube shorter than the corolla but longer than the corolla-tube. Ovary solitary, subsessile, glabrous. Pod and seeds unknown.
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