Shrubs or trees, to 3.5 m tall, the branchlets terete, distichous, well spaced, the bark drying dull grey, often mottled, occasionally conspicuously lenticellate. Leaves oblong, 2.0-5.5 cm long, 1.0-2.5 cm wide, cuneate to rounded at the apex, acuminate, the acumen vague, basally cuneate, obtuse or vaguely rounded, the costa plane, immersed or prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins (6-)8-9, arcuate, the veinlets lineolate, irregularly perpendicular to lateral veins, the intervenal areas often mosaic-like, papyraceous, glabrate above, villose or merely puberulent on the costa and the veins as well as the intervenal areas, below the hairs of the veinlets occasionally shaggy; petioles 0.2-0.7 cm long, slender, puberulent or villose, often curved; stipules ovate deltoid, ca. 2 mm long, acute, pubescent. Inflorescences axillary, 1-2 per axil, 3-5 cm long, the pedun-cles 1.5-3.0 cm long, capillaceous or wiry, to 0.5 mm wide, pubescent, producing 1 cymule at the apex, this usually 5-flowered, or bifurcating and producing a pair of 5-8-flowered cymules. Flowers sessile or subsessile; hypanthium subrotund, ca. 1 mm long, carnose, the calycine cup ca. 2.5 mm long, carnose, eglandular within, the teeth absent; corolla white or reddish, the tube narrowly cylindrical, to 16.5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, puberulent outside, glabrous within, the lobes (4-)5(-6), oblong, 2.5-4.2 mm long, thinly carnose; stamens (4-)5, the anthers linear oblong, 1.5-3.0 mm long, ca. 0.2 mm wide, dorsifixed, subsessile or sessile, occasionally the filaments as long as the anthers, attached immediately below the mouth or at the upper 2/3 of the tube, the ovarian disc annular, the style linear, 8-14 mm long with appressed ascending hairs, the stigmas 2(-3?), capitate, ca. 0.2 mm long, slightly wider than the style. Fruits rotund, to 0.7 cm in diam., the persistent calycine cup to 1.3 mm long, the pericarp smooth, wrinkled when dry, minutely grey green, puberulent, the hairs eventually deciduous.
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