Shrubs 4(-7) m tall, the branchlets subterete, slender, the internodes well spaced. Leaves elliptic oblong, 9-16(-24) cm long, 3.2-8.0(-13.0) cm wide, acu-minate, the acumen to 1.5 cm long, usually falcate, obtuse, acute or cuneate at the base, somewhat inequilateral, the costa prominent, the lateral veins (7-)10-12, joining to form a usually distinct submarginal vein, the venules reticulate, membranous to stiffly chartaceous, concolorous or discolorous, villosulose or villose on veins and costa above and beneath; petioles slender or stout, 1.2-3.5 (-4.2) cm long, 0.1-0.2 cm wide, pubescent; stipules connate, the sheath ca. 3 mm long, pubescent. Inflorescences terminal, usually sessile or the peduncle to 1 cm long, trichotomous, the branches spreading, curved, to 8 cm long, slender, ca. 1 mm wide, densely golden pubescent, each branch with 3 flowers at the apex. Flowers sessile; hypanthium including calycine cup narrow cylindrical, to 16 mm long, ca. 3.3 mm wide, the cup more than twice the length of the hypan-thium, villose outside, glabrous within, stiffly carnose; corolla white or cream colored, the tube to 33 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, densely pubescent outside, sometimes glabrescent, the lobes 4, narrowly oblong, ca. 11 mm long, 2-3 mm wide basally, glabrous adaxially; stamens 4, the anthers narrowly oblong, ca. 7 mm long, ca. 0.7 mm wide, obtuse, the filaments ca. 6.5 mm long, attached submedially in the tube; stigmas 2, digitiform, ca. 3 mm long, the style ca. 13 mm long; ovary oblong in cross section, thin walled. Fruits sessile or pedicellate for 3 mm, oblong, to 3 cm long, to 1.5 cm wide, tapering at the apex and base, the calyx persistent, 1.0-1.7 cm long, densely pubescent.
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