Shrub, c. 3½ m; tips of the branchlets rather densely appressed-rufous-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acutely rather shortly and abruptly acuminate at the apex, narrowed into the petiole, subcoriaceous, dark green to blackish-brown and shining above when dry, rusty-hairy on the midrib, finally glabrescent, rather sharply and regularly serrate, 7-9 by 3½-4 cm; midrib more distinctly elevated beneath only, nerves 6-7 pairs curved-ascending, obscurely anastomosing, slightly prominent on both sides, reticulations ± lax above, rather dense, and finely raised beneath; petiole c. 5 mm. Racemes ramiflorous, very slender, rather densely fuscous-pilose, 7-8.5 cm; rhachis 0.6 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acuminate, c. 1 mm. Pedicels mostly in twos and connate up to the middle, slender, fuscous-pilose, 2 mm. Perianth yellowish with salmon centre, c. 6 mm, laxly fuscous-pilose, or glabrescent from the top. Anthers 1.6 mm. Disk glands subovate-oblong, connate at the base. Ovary rusty-hirsute; style glabrous. Fruit not known.
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