Tree; young branchlets brownish, ± tomentose, the older ones quickly glabrescent. Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, abruptly (1 cm) obtuse-acuminate, attenuate into the petiole to ± rounded at the base, somewhat inequilateral, thinly chartaceous, coarsely subserrate-crenate, (6-)7-13(-15) by (4-)5-6.5 cm; nerves 6-8 pairs, joined at the margin, veins rather densely reticulate and prominent on both sides; petiole tomentose. Panicles +-densely shortly cinereous-pilose, branched from near the base, 15-20 cm long, lower branches up to 10 cm. Flowers 7-merous, in fascicles of 4-6(-8) interruptedly disposed on the rhachis. Bracts subulate, 0.5 mm. Pedicels slender, ± connate at their bases. Calyx-tube conical-oblong, 1.8 mm. Sepals narrow-spathulate, 1.5 by 0.3 mm. Petals similar to the sepals, 1.5 by 0.5 mm, slightly accrescent. Styles 7, very short.
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