Shrub. Tips of branchlets and innovations shortly rufous-villous. Leaves elliptic-oblong, apex shortly subacutely attenuate, base cuneate, very base sometimes obtuse, slightly inequilateral, coriaceous, young ones early glabrate above, ± densely set with rather large stellate hairs on midrib, nerves and veins beneath as are the petioles, mature ones persistently so, 6-9 by (2.5-)3-4 cm, glandular-subserrate-denticulate in the upper, entire in the lower part, nerves in 9-10 pairs excurrent along the edge, well-raised beneath, veins transverse and prominent beneath, reticulation visible; petiole 2-3 cm. Racemes terminal and from the upper 3 or 4 axils (which are mostly defoliate in flowering time) close together forming a panicle, all over with a rusty, almost villous tomentum of numerous longer crisp fascicled and shorter stellate hairs; rachis robust. Pedicels thickish, 2-3 mm (in fruit 5-6 mm), bracts subulate, caducous, 3 mm. Calyx lobes oblong, c. 5 by 2.5 mm. Petals obovate, apparently cup-like converging, quite glabrous, white, scented, 6 by 3 mm. Filaments laxly long-hairy; anthers narrow-obcordate, base acute, 2 mm. Ovary densely set with erect hairs; style subappressedly hairy in its lower third, glabrous for the rest, 5 mm (in fruit 6 mm), stigma shortly 3-lobed. Capsule sub-globose, c. 4 mm ø.
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