Branchlets glabrous to densely puberulent and then often interspersed with longer hairs. Leaves: petiole 0.6-8.2 cm long; blade papery to subcoriaceous, ovate, 2.3-20.6 by 1.1-13.6 cm, 1.1-3.3 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base cordate to rounded, 5-10 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous to densely velutinous above and beneath. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, often forming panicles, sometimes somewhat umbelliform, glabrous to velutinous, often with longer hairs interspersed, 3.8-20 cm long; pedicels 1.3-10 mm long. Sepals ovate to oblong, 0.6-1.9 by 0.5-1.3 mm, 0.7-2.4 times as long as wide, apex rounded to obtuse, rarely to acute, glabrous to puberulent, ciliate. Corolla white to reddish; tube 6.8-14 mm long, 0.9-2.5 times as long as lobes; lobes 3.2-12.5 by 2-7 mm, 1.5-4.8 times as long as wide; glabrous to puberulent outside, densely pubescent around and above stamens inside. Stamens inserted at 1.1-2.5 mm from corolla base which is 0.1-0.2 of tube length; filaments 0.6-1 mm long; anthers 1.4-1.8 by 0.3-0.6 mm, 3-6 times as long as wide. Disk ovate to oblong, apex obtuse, flat-topped or slightly bifid, 0.3-0.7 mm long. Ovaries 0.3-0.9 mm long; style and style head 1.9-3 mm long. Fruit laterally flattened, fusiform, glabrous, 7-13.3 by 1.2-1.7 cm. Seeds: grain ruminate; 15-21 by 3.3-4.5 mm; coma 2.8-2.9 cm long.
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