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Leaves 1.2–14 × 0.4–7.1 cm, narrowly to broadly elliptic to oblong or lanceolate, slightly to markedly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous to slightly bristly-pubescent above, sparsely to densely bristly-pubescent on the venation beneath; tertiary venation obscure to very evident; petiole 1–8 mm long; stipules 1.5–5 mm long, bifid, soon falling.
Corolla white, the tube greenish outside, the throat hairs yellow; tube 1.5–3 cm long, appressed pubescent outside with ± stiff hairs; lobes very variable in size and shape, (1)1.8–2.8(3.5) × (0.5)1.1–1.5 cm, linear-oblong to broadly elliptic, shortly apiculate at the apex, densely puberulous.
Calyx tube 3 mm long, turbinate, appressed bristly-pubescent; lobes 5–6, 3.5–21 × 0.8–8.5 mm, oblong, elliptic or lanceolate, rarely ovate, clawed at the base, often quite leaf-like.
Style reaching about halfway up the tube in short-styled flowers, the stigmas 3 mm long, the anthers not exserted but situated just below the throat.
Fruit 0.8–1.8 × 0.8–1.4 cm, oblong-ellipsoid to subglobose, sparsely shortly bristly pubescent, mostly crowned with the persistent calyx lobes.
Flowers sweet-scented, solitary or in lax terminal cymes; peduncles (including stalks of solitary flowers) 0.2–4 cm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long.
A branching shrub in secondary forest or a small understorey tree in high forest, 8-25 ft. sometimes up to 40 ft. high
Seeds blackish, about 1.3 mm long, ± triangular in outline, strongly compressed, deeply pitted.
Compact shrub or small tree (0.2)1.5–7.5(12?) m tall; stems glabrous to bristly-pubescent.
Stigmas 2–4 mm long in long-styled flowers, exserted, the anthers 2–3 mm below the throat.
Flowers white with yellow throat-hairs
Fruits yellow.
