Trees, ca. 3-10 m high; juvenile branches with indistinct tufts of dirty-appearing hairs, soon glabrate, the bark brown, firm and striated, not lenticellate. Leaves irregularly decussate, subcaudate-acuminate, obtuse with uneven sides basally, 10-18 cm long and 2.5-5.5 cm wide, glabrous and shiny olive green above, pale and indistinctly papillate below, the secondary veins congested and widely ascending. Inflorescences lateral, extra axillary, with uneven sides, 2 to 3 times dichotomous, entirely minutely ferrugineous-puberulent, the peduncles moderately thick and subequal to the length of the petioles. Flowers in sessile fascicles, the bracts reniform, densely imbricate, ca. 1 mm long or less; calyx-lobes closely imbricate, subequal, suborbicular-reniform, obtuse, ca. 1-1.5 mm long, with minute, appressed ferrugineous hairs, ciliate, non-glandular; corolla apparently tubuliform to tubuliform-salverform, fleshy, minutely sericeous exter-nally, the tube ca. 1.5 mm long, widely subcampanulate and not constricted, the lobes narrowly sagittate, not twisted in bud, ca. 1 mm long; anthers inserted at the base of the corolla tube in bud; ovary ca. 1.5 mm long, style ca. equal, minutely puberulent. Fruit unknown.
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