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Leaf-lamina 5–10 x 3.5–5.5 cm., obovate or broadly elliptic, apex acuminate or rarely rounded, base broadly cuneate or truncate, margin coarsely and irregularly crenate-serrate, lateral nerves in c. 6 pairs, slightly prominent above, prominent below, venation laxly reticulate, glabrous on both sides or setulose-pubescent on the midrib and main nerves below, sometimes with tufts of hairs in the nerve-axils below; petiole often purplish, up to 1.5 cm. long, pubescent or glabrous.
Stamens in fascicles of 3 opposite the petals; filaments 3.5 mm. long, slender, glabrous or sparsely pilose; anthers 0.5 mm. in diam., globose, the thecae free in the lower half and the connective with a blunt glandular process at the apex.
Ovary conical, pilose outside, full of long pilose hairs inside; ovules 6–9, discoid; style 2–3.5 mm. long, columnar, pilose at the base; stigmatic arms divergent, very short.
Flowers in lax, terminal or axillary panicles up to 12 cm. long, the individual flowers 1–2 together and sessile or nearly sessile on the puberulous branches of the panicle.
Fruit capsular, woody and perhaps indehiscent, surrounded by the persistent corolla, pilose, similar in shape to the ovary.
Petals 5–7, 3.5–4 x 2–2.5 mm., broadly rhomboid-elliptic or ovate, subacute at the apex, densely pubescent on the back.
Small tree c. 10 m. tall; young branches pubescent or glabrous, often purplish-brown and with pale lenticels.
Sepals 5–7, 3.5–5 x 1.5–2.5 mm., elliptic or ovate, acute at the apex, densely pubescent on the back.
Seed usually solitary, c. 3 x 2 mm., narrowly ovoid; testa thin and brown.
Disk glands 1–1.5 mm. in diam., discoid, tomentose.
