Tree to 30 m tall, the trunk to 90 cm in diam, the bark grayish, the branchlets glabrous to finely puberulous, lenticellate. Leaves with the petioles 3-13 mm long, glabrous or finely puberulous; blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, sometimes narrowly so, acute to obtuse at the base, acuminate at the apex, the acumen often blunt, the margins undulate-crenulate to crenate, 8-15 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, thin-chartaceous to chartaceous, ? shiny on both sides, glabrous or almost so, the costa prominent below, the lateral veins slightly prominent below. Inflorescences usually racemose, sometimes paniculate, to 12 cm long, the rachis minutely puberulous. Flowers white, the pedicels to 10 mm long, articulated above, near or below the middle, puberulous, the bracteoles narrowly triangular, to 1.5 mm long, minutely puberulous, caducous or ? long persistent; calyx tube turbinate, minutely puberu-lous; calyx lobes (5)6-7, ovate to narrowly oblong-ovate, subobtuse to acute at the apex, 2.5-5 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide, minutely puberulous, persistent; petals ovate to broadly ovate, subobtuse at the apex, to 5-6 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, minutely puberulous, persistent; stamens in fascicles of 3, rarely 2, the filaments to 4 mm long, glabrous, the anthers ca 0.5 mm long; glands ? transversely elliptic, to 1.3 mm X 0.8-1 mm, minutely tomentellous; ovary conical, tomentellous, the styles 3 or 4, distinct from the base, to 1.2 mm long, glabrous or puberulous beneath, the stigmas simple. Mature fruit not seen.
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