rees to 9 m; young branches densely pilose with hairs less than 1 mm long and appressed, glabrate with age. Leaves with blades oblong to oblanceolate, 9-15 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, membranous, the apex acuminate, the base acute, glabrous excepting the pilose veins above and below; petioles to 1 cm long, pilose, the hairs more or less appressed, whitish. Inflorescences axillary or infrequently terminal, many-flowered, densely ash-gray-tomentulose, the peduncle to 1.5 cm long, branched, often adnate to the petiole. Flowers a, white, the pedicel short; sepals 5, ovate, ca 3 mm long, glabrous within, ash-gray-tomentulose without; petals 5, ca equalling sepals in length, narrowly ovate, moderately revolute, apically bifid by ca 1/4 length; stamens 5, as long as and alternate with the petals, the filament free, glabrous, the anther very small; disk glands 5, very small, nob-like, opposite the petals; ovary ovoid, densely pilose; styles 3, to 2 mm long, partially connate, re-curved, the stigma more or less capitate. Drupes oblong-ellipsoid, to 3.5 cm long, white-tomentulose; seed 1.
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