Slender tree, 3-10 m by 10-25 cm; tips of the branchlets deep ferrugineous-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, rarely oblong, mostly broadly obtusely attenuate to rounded at the apex, cuneate into the petiole and ± decurrent at the base, coriaceous, yellowish-green and shining, greyish-or brownish-dull beneath when dry, initially both faces with a dense ferrugineous ± appressed tomentum, but soon glabrescent above, less quickly so beneath, at last glabrous, entire, rarely subdentate, (5-)6-8(-10, rarely up to 14) by (2.5-)2.8-4(-5.5) cm; midrib ± flat above, prominent beneath, nerves 5-7 pairs, straight in their lower half, curved upwards in the upper part and ± joined along the margin, slightly prominent on both faces, reticulations rather dense, raised on both faces; petiole +-flattened, initially tomentose, glabrescent, 4/5-1½(-2) cm. Racemes solitary or rarely in twos in the uppermost axils, densely brown tomentose, finally somewhat glabrescent at the flower-tips, dense-flowered nearly to the base, 8-17 cm, mostly exceeding the leaves; rhachis stoutish, 1.5-2 mm diam. Bracts narrow-ovate, ± acute, 1-2 mm. Pedicels mostly in twos, ± stoutish, free or connate up to the middle, c. 2-3 mm in anthesis, somewhat accrescent in fruit. Perianth (7-)8-9 mm, white or yellowish, tube 3/5-1 (rarely up to 1.5) mm diam., limb c. 1.5 mm diam. Anthers 1.6 mm. Disk glands small, free, approximate. Ovary ferrugineous-villous; style slender, glabrous. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, blackish when dry, glabrous, minutely verruculose, c. 1 (rarely up to 1.5) by (3/5-)4/5-1 cm, pericarp c. 3/5 mm.
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