Tree (?). Young branches first dark brown, later greyish, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 0.5-3 cm; blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, (3—)5—18 by 1.5-9 cm, margin entire to wavy, base truncate, apex acute to acuminate, nerves 5-7 on each side, glabrous on both sides. Inflorescence axillary or terminal on short branches, corymbose with long primary branches, at length broadly expanded, flowers numerous in subcapitate groups crowded at end of branches, with loose, white, patent hairs; pedicels less than 1 mm long. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, 1.5 mm long, 2 mm in diam., with loose, patent hairs along margin of lobes, lobes free for 3 /4, lanceolate. Corolla white, 3.5 mm long, c. 5 mm in diam., tube cylindrical-campanulate, gradually widening towards apex, lobes reflexed to subexplanate, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide at base, rounded, but seemingly acute by revolute margins. Stamens: filaments long exserted, anthers linear, 1 mm long. Pistil: style 4-4.5 mm long, forked for 0.8-1 mm, branches more or less erect; stigmata small, subcapitate, fairly indistinct. Fruit not seen.
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