Small tree 4-5 m high. Young branches brown to greenish brown, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 1-3 cm long; blade broadly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, (3-)4-15 by 1.5-7.5(-8) cm, margin entire, base attenuate, obliquely truncate, apex acute or acuminate, nerves 4-6 on each side, glabrous or subglabrous on both sides. Inflorescence on short, lateral branches or axillary, corymbose, with numerous flowers. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, 1.25-1.5 mm long, 1.25-2 mm wide, glabrous or with few hairs along margin of lobes, lobes free to the middle or beyond, triangular. Corolla white, 3.5-4(-5) mm long, c. 5 mm in diam., tube cylindrical-campanulate, lobes more or less reflexed, broadly rounded, c. 2.5 mm long. Stamens long exserted. Pistil: style 4.5-6 mm long, forked for 0.8 mm; stigmata capitate, distinct. Fruit subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam.
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