Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-13 m tall. Leaves: petioles 0.5-2 cm long, winged; lamina obovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 30-70 by 6-18 cm, chartaceous, base cuneate, confluent onto petiole, margin distinctly serrate-crenulate, apex cuspidate, acumen 10-20 mm long, lower surface glabrous; midrib prominulous above, prominent beneath, primary veins 16-30 pairs, brochidodromous, merging through network of veins 2-3 mm from margin, prominulous above, prominent beneath, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, with tendency to be parallel and arranged at right angles to veins. Inflorescences terminal racemes, pendulous, with c. 135 flowers, 26-112 cm long; rachis 5-7 mm diam. at base, 2-4 mm at apex, glabrous; bracts triangular, 1.5-5 by 0.5-2 mm. Calyx open in bud. Buds 5-7 mm. Flowers with pedicels 5-15 mm; hypanthium 3-4-gonous to globular, 7-11 mm long, glabrous; petals 1.75-2.75 by 0.75-1.5 cm, pale yellowish pink, white, pale pink; stamens pink to deep pink, staminal whorls 3-4, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 0.5-5 mm high, staminodia 6-12 mm; disc a grooved small ring, 0.5-0.75 mm high; ovary 3-4-locular, 2-5 ovules per locule; style 3.5-4.2 cm. Fruits (immature) 3-4-gonous, 3-4-winged, 6-12.5 by 1.5-3 by c. 1.5 cm. Seeds ovoid, fissured, c. 3.5 by 0.75 by 1.5 cm.
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A small tree. It grows 3-7 m tall. The trunk is thin and straight. It is 5-15 cm across. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are broadly sword shaped. They extend down along the stem at the base. The flowers hang down along a long stalk amongst the leaves. The flowers are greenish with red tips.
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