Shrubs or trees, erect, 2-5 m; burl absent; twigs soft-hairy with minute glands on cryptic, short hairs or at tips of longer, hispid hairs. Leaves: petiole 4-5 mm; blade gray-glaucous, becoming dark green, dull, narrowly elliptic-ovate, 2-4 × 1-2 cm, base truncate to rounded, margins entire, plane, (sometimes sparsely ciliate), surfaces smooth, finely white-tomentose or glabrous. Inflorescences racemes, simple or 1-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded, bell-shaped, ± obscured by bracts), axis 0.5-1.2 cm, 1+ mm diam., soft-hairy with minute glands on cryptic, short hairs or at tips of longer, hispid hairs; bracts not appressed, (green), leaflike, ovate, 5-10 mm, apex acute, surfaces hairy, (also with longer hairs). Pedicels 2-4 mm, sparsely white-hairy. Flowers: corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy. Fruits depressed-globose, 6-8 mm diam., sparsely white-hairy. Stones distinct. 2n = 26.
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