Tree, rarely more than 15 m high. Branches brownish to greyish, youngest parts sometimes dark brown, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 6-15 mm; blade lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-12 by 1-6 cm, entire, wavy or very rarely repanded-dentate, obliquely rounded to truncate at base, apex acute to acuminate, nerves 5-7 on each side, at wide angles to midrib, the same colour on both sides or paler beneath, glabrous on upper, with hairs in axils of primary nerves at lower side, sometimes folded along midrib. Inflorescence terminal on young, lateral branches or axillary, subcorymbose, flowers all at one side of branches of last order, sparsely hairy, with few to numerous flowers; pedicels less than 1 mm. Calyx campanulate, 2(-2.5) mm long, 2.25 mm wide, lobes free for 1/3, hairs along margins. Corolla white, 4-4.5 mm long, upper border of tube 3.5 mm wide, tube subcylindrical-obconical, lobes reflexed, 2.5 mm long, with revolute margins. Stamens very long exserted. Pistil: style 5-5.5 mm long, free branches 1-1.25 mm, stigmata 2, discoid-subcapitate, distinct also by colour. Fruit globose, 3.5-4(-5) mm in diam. Fig. 6.
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