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Corolla with 5 minute apiculae at the apex in bud; yellow, probably slightly fleshy; tube 3 mm long, shortly cylindrical, glabrous outside, inside with a ring of white strongly deflexed hairs 1.3 mm long affixed at about the upper third of the tube; lobes 2.2 × 1.2 mm, triangular-lanceolate, with a slender apical appendage c. 1 mm long.
Leaves 5.2–15 × 1.8–7.4 cm, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, drying dark, glabrous save for very small hairy domatia in the nerve axils beneath; petiole 2–3 mm long; stipules up to 15 mm long, linear-lanceolate, from broad bases which are slightly connate basally.
Inflorescences appearing before, or together with, the leaves, cymose, much branched, 3–5 cm long, the ultimate parts spreading pubescent; peduncle 2–3 cm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long, pubescent, bracts and bracteoles c. 3 × 0.8 mm, linear-lanceolate.
Calyx tube 1.2 mm long, top-shaped, densely covered with short spreading hairs; lobes 2.3–2.6 × 0.7–0.9 mm, oblong or linear-oblong or slightly elliptic, more or less glabrous.
Shrub or small tree 2–18 m tall; youngest shoots drying black, sparsely to ± densely pubescent; older shoots covered with a pale brown rather corky bark, irregularly fissured.
Pyrenes 19 mm long, c. 5 mm thick and wide, fusiform to canoe-shaped, the hilar notch close to the top of the seed.
Anthers inserted at the throat, 1 mm long, oblong, ± acute, just exserted.
Pollen presenter cylindric-clavate, 12-ridged, slightly bifid at the apex.
Style slightly thickened at the base, 4.8 mm long, glabrous.
Fruit 23 × 13 × 9 mm, oblong, compressed, with 1–2 pyrenes.
Disk annular, thick.
Ovary 2-celled.
