Treelet 4-5 m; tips of the branchlets densely appressed rusty-pilose, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic or subovate-elliptic, shortly acuminate and subacute at the apex, cuneate into the petiole, slightly inequilateral, dilutely olivaceous above when dry, rather livid beneath, glabrous, remotely and rather coarsely serrate, slightly revolute at the margin, 10-24 by 5-10 cm; midrib prominent, specially beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs rather straight in the lower, curved in the upper part, ± parallel, anastomosing, manifestly impressed above in dry specimens, strongly prominent beneath, reticulations dense and slightly raised on both faces; petiole (1.5-)2-3 cm. Racemes slender, cauli-florous, up to 25 cm, subdensely appressedly rufous-ferrugineous hairy. Bracts linear, 2-2.5 mm. Pedicels mostly in twos, connate at the base, rather slender, 3-4.5 mm. Perianth pale rose, 14-15 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb 1.5 mm. Anthers 1.5 mm. Disk glands thick, broadly obovate, free. Ovary rufous-tomentose; style slender, glabrous. Fruit not known.
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