Branchlets stout, terete, slightly zig-zag, glabrous, internodes 2.5-5 cm. Thorns slightly recurved, minute to 2 mm long. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, oblong or sublanceolate, light green when dry, glabrous, 13-21.5 by 5-10.5 cm; base obtusely acutish to rounded; top rounded and 2-10 mm acuminate, with a dark and stiff tip; nerves (6-)7-9(-10) pairs, depressed above. Petiole stout, 1-1½ cm. Racemes axillary, sometimes serially in twos; rachis stout, (1-)2.5 cm, up to 20-flowered, pale-puberulous, glabrescent, at the very base surrounded by conferted bracts. Bracts subulate, small, early caducous; bracteoles stiff, subulate, minute, later caducous. Pedicel 1-2.5 cm, slightly thickened towards the top, puberulous, glabrescent. Flowers (pinkish) white, scented. Buds subglobular, occasionally apiculate, 1 cm diam. Sepals c. 11-14 by 6-10 mm, more or less mucronulate, outer ones subglabrous, inner ones outside puberulous along the margin. Petals 12-20 by 6-10 mm, outside puberulous, especially in the upper part; upper petals the smallest, in the basal median part densely puberulous inside; lower petals glabrous inside. Disk fleshy, c. 1 mm diam., glabrous. Stamens (80-)100-160, 25-35 mm long, filaments white. Gynophore 2-3.5 cm; ovary ovoid, 2-3 by 1 mm, stigma 0.5 mm, all glabrous.
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