Low spreading tree or (sometimes epiphytic) shrub. Leaves petioled, elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, 10-21 by 5-8.5 cm, firmly coriaceous, base cuneate or contracted, apex shortly and often abruptly triangular-acuminate; nerves 7-10 pairs, invisible on both surfaces; petiole 1-1½ cm, robust; exauriculate; axillary scale for the greater part adnate to the petiole, 0.5-0.75 cm long, narrowed towards the truncate to slightly 2-lobed apex. Flowers in (1-)2-4-florous cymes; pedicels stout, 1.25-2.5 cm; 1-2 pairs of bracteoles near the apex, appressed, broadly ovate, 0.5-1 cm long, caducous. Calyx campanulate, 1.75-3.5 cm long, divided ± 1/3 to nearly halfway down. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, c. 4.5 cm. Anthers oblong, thick, ± 8 mm, bifid to about the middle. Stigma peltate, c. 2.5 mm ø. Fruits subglobose or broadly (ob)ovoid, 3.75-5 cm long; calyx funnel-shaped, loosely appressed.
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