Shrubs or small trees, to 8 m high, the branchlets minutely and densely ferruginous-lepidote at first. Leaves with short marginate petioles to 1 cm long; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 15-30 cm long and 5-12 cm wide, rarely larger, usually acuminate, acute and decurrent basally, thin, the margin usually entire, sometimes denticulate, minutely and sparsely lepidote, dotted beneath with abundant black glands, the costa and the primary lateral veins elevated beneath, often slightly impressed above. Inflorescences terminal, many-flowered, open, large and pyramidal, often longer than the leaves, 2-4-pinnately paniculate, minutely lepidote or furfuraceous-lepidote; pedicels sparsely lepidote, 3-5 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, 5 mm long; calyx lepidote basally, otherwise glabrous, conspicuously black-punctate with elevated glands; sepals dextrorsely imbricate, broadly ovate, 1.6-2 mm long, acutish, minutely erose-ciliate; petals dextrorsely imbricate, connate ca. 1 mm at the lepidote base, ovate-lanceolate, slightly asymmetrical, often erose; stamens shorter than the petals, 3.75 mm long, the filaments slender, 1.5-1.75 mm long, the anthers dorsifixed 1/5 above the base, lanceolate-oblong, 2.3-2.6 mm long, with a black line dorsally, apiculate or subulate, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary ovoid, glabrous, the ovules 14-17, pluriseriate, the placenta ovoid, apiculate, the style slender, to 4.5 mm long. Fruit globose, 5-6 mm in diameter.
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