Glabrous except for the young stems and leaves brown scurfy. Leaves opposite; lamina narrowly ovate to ovate, 8-14 cm long, mostly 4-7 cm wide, attenuate or cuneate at the base to a distinct petiole c. 10 mm long, usually attenuate and acute to rounded at the apex, dull powdery green on both sides; venation pinnate with the brown midrib distinct and raised in the lower part and the main laterals indistinct on both sides. Inflorescences at the nodes, a raceme of 6-9 opposite evenly spaced pairs of triads with the central flower sessile and the lateral flowers shortly pedicellate; axis 30-60 mm long; peduncles of the triads 1-3 mm long, secund; pedicels of the lateral flowers c. 0.5 mm long but longer under the fruit; bracts rounded, imbricate, c. 2.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 6-merous, (15-)20-26 mm long, slender, rounded at the apex, mostly green (rarely red) and sometimes shading to yellow or red above; petals in the open flower separating to the base. Anther c. 2.5 mm long, acute, slightly longer than the free part of the filament.
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