Slender, small or medium-sized, few-branched tree; bark rather smooth, greyish, minutely longitudinally fissured. Branchlets rather slender, dilutely rusty-stellate-tomentellous distally. Leaves elliptic-oblong or elliptic, sometimes subovate-elliptic, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate and slightly inequilateral, subcoriaceous, dark green and dull above, paler and shining below, flush reddish, denticulate-serrulate, 8-10(-12) by 4-5.5(-6) cm, young ones stellate-puberulous, early glabrate above, set with sparse simple hairs at midrib and moreover ± laxly with small stellate hairs at midrib, nerves and veins below, mature ones finally glabrous, nerves (10-)11-13 pairs, curved-ascendent, raised beneath, reticulation faint; petiole rather slender, 1.5-2.2 cm. Racemes 2 or 3(-5), subdensely set with flowers, up to 22 cm, tomentellous by rusty-brownish simple and paler stellate hairs in all parts. Pedicels rather robust and 3-4 mm (in fruit 6-7 mm), bracts subulate, 3-4 mm, caducous. Calyx lobes oblong, 4-5 by 2 mm. Petals obovate, apex erose, spreading, white, slightly fragrant, glabrous on both faces, sparsely fimbriate, (5-)6-7 by (3-)4-5 mm. Filaments laxly set with longish hairs, 5(-6) mm; anthers narrowly obcordate, base acute, 1.8 mm. Ovary subsericeous-tomentose; style glabrous, shortly trilobed, 5-6 mm in anthesis, 7 mm in fruit. Capsule depressed-globose, 4 by 5 mm, sub-tended by the spreading sepals, Seeds oblong-ovoid, c. 1.5 mm.
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