Tree; stems slender, to 5.4 m tall, densely strigose, the apex yellowish sub-tomentose. Leaves opposite, equal; blades elliptic to obovate, subcoriaceous, 12-27 cm long, 2.7-5.7 cm wide, the apex long acuminate, the base acute to cuneate, entire, ciliate, above medium green, glabrous, below light yellowish green, strigose, especially on the veins; petiole sulcate above, 1.2-2.7 cm long, strigose. Inflorescences aggregated in the upper leaf axils; peduncles lacking; pedicels short, to 8 mm, densely strigose. Flowers few; calyx lobes free, broadly ovate, 4-6 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, the apex rounded, thick, outside white tomentose, inside glabrous; corolla pink, slightly oblique in the calyx, the tube cylindric, straight, apparently not gibbous or ventricose, ca. 1.5 cm long, ca. 4 mm wide, the outside densely pilose, the inside glabrous but glandular especially near the apex, the limb slightly 2-lipped, ca. 8 mm across, the lobes suborbicular; stamens with the filaments adnate to the base of the corolla tube, flat, glabrous, the anthers orbicular, ca. 2 mm wide, the staminode conspicuous; disc annular, but thick on one side; ovary ovoid, white tomentose, the style pubescent, the stigma obscurely bibbed. Berry green when young, globose, densely pubescent.
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