Shrub or tree up to c. 12 m. tall with trunk up to 4 dm. diam., but us. smaller without distinct trunk. Branches and branchlets us. slender, erect or spreading. Lvs stiff, us. crowded towards tips of branchlets; sheath ± 15 × 10 mm., pale, passing by rounded to truncate, sts auricled shoulder into lamina ± 10-25 cm. × 3-5 mm., rigid, coriac., slightly rounded on dorsal surface, sts ± pubescent above, tapering to long acuminate apex; margins entire to minutely serrulate. Infl. of erect to drooping 6-15-fld racemes 4-5 cm. long, terminal on branchlets. Bracts caducous, lower long, lflike. Sepals persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, c. = corolla-tube. Corolla subcampanulate, tube ± 5 mm. long, lobes ovate-triangular, inflexed at tips; anthers included or barely exserted. Capsule ± 4-5 mm. long.
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