Trees, 8-20 m tall; branches angled to terete, strigillose becoming glabrescent. Petiole 5-10 mm, sparsely strigillose to glabrous; leaf blade drying papery, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, lanceolate-oblong, or oblanceolate, 9.5-15 × 2-4.5 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely strigillose or strigose along principal veins, base cuneate to acute and sometimes slightly inequilateral, apex shortly acuminate to acuminate; secondary veins 8-11 pairs, usually with pilosulous domatia in abaxial axils; stipules triangular to ovate, 5-10 mm, keeled or with ridges in upside-down-Y pattern, strigillose, slenderly acute, sometimes with 1 or 2 aristae 1-3 mm. Inflorescences 2-10-flowered, strigillose to strigose or glabrescent; peduncle 1-1.5 cm; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-4 mm, aristate; pedicels 6-18 mm. Calyx glabrous; ovary portion obovoid to ellipsoid, 3-4 mm; limb 8-13 mm, inside villosulous to tomentulose, lobed for ca. 1/3; lobes triangular to linear-lanceolate, acute and terminating in arista 1-2 mm. Corolla creamy white to pale green or pale yellow, outside glabrous; tube 20-25 mm, inside tomentose; lobes lanceolate, 15-26 mm, acuminate to subaristate, marginally hyaline. Fruiting peduncle to 3.5 m. Berry subglobose to ellipsoid, ca. 11 × 9 cm, smooth; seeds ovoid to oblong-angular, ca. 12 × 7 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. May.
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