Tree about 10-15 m; branchlets grey-villous when young, rather soon glabrescent. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, rounded to acute at the base, subcoriaceous, rather shining and brownish-olivaceous when dry, distantly and ± distinctly crenate-serrate, glabrous above but ± pilose at midrib, sparsely to densely pilose beneath when young, but +-glabrescent when adult the midrib and nerves excepted, 7-9(-10) by (2½-)3½-5 cm; nerves 6 pairs, prominent beneath, anastomosing, veins manifestly reticulate but little elevated on both sides; petiole 4-8 mm, +-villous. Racemes solitary or mostly several arranged in sometimes much-branched panicles up to 15 cm long, mostly provided with reduced, subpersistent leaflets, with soft long, spreading, pale hairs. Flowers 6-7-merous, white, scattered along the rhachis. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Bracts ovate to lanceolate, membranous, 2½-4 mm. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, c. 2-3 mm. Sepals linear to oblanceolate, subacute, densely set with patent hairs. Petals narrow-spathulate, similar to the sepals and equally long. Stamens 3 opposite each petal; filaments 5 mm, in the lower half with spreading hairs. Ovary ± villous. Styles 5-6, patent-hairy in the lower half, 2-3 mm.
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