Small tree to 5 m tall, the young branches densely lanate-tomentellous becoming glabrous, obscurely lenticellate. Stipules lanceolate, to 11 mm long, acute, keeled, sparsely appressed pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, broadly elliptic, 11-13 by 8-10 cm, glabrous and shiny above, slightly bullate, glabrous beneath except for sparsely pilose venation, apex very shortly abrupt acuminate, the acumen 2-3 mm long, rounded at base with base contracted into petiole; midrib prominent on both surfaces, slightly pilose towards base above, pilose beneath; primary veins 12-14 pairs, prominulous inset in a groove above, prominent and pilose beneath, venation prominulous; petioles thick, 5-7 mm long, terete, densely brown lanate when young. Inflorescences of axillary little-branched panicles or spikes, to 5 cm long, densely brown sericeous; bracts and bracteoles to 15 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, densely sericeous on exterior, appressed puberulous within. Receptacle tube narrowly cylindrical, 7-11 mm long, sericeous on exterior, sessile; calyx lobes lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 5-10 mm long, unequal, densely sericeous on exterior, tomentellous within. Petals obovate narrowed to base, 10-11 mm long. Stamens c. 20, inserted on faucal annulus 2 mm high with tooth-like staminodes opposite, the filaments 10-12 mm long. Ovary densely strigose. Style slender, glabrous; stigma truncate. Fruit unknown.
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