Erect shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, entire, elliptic, straight to slightly falcate, (5-) 9-15 cm long, 4-10 mm wide; margins flat; surfaces similar, finely and densely sericeous. Conflorescence terminal, erect, with several paniculate branches; unit conflorescence cylindrical, c. 7 cm long, subsynchronous to weakly acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style creamy white. Perianth 3-merous, glabrous inside and out. Nectary ±arcuate. Pistil 9-12 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter erect-conical. Follicle 20-23 mm long, fat-lenticular, shortly apiculate, rugulose, glabrous.
Home