Tree up to 8 m. Leaves elliptic, broadly attenuate or nearly rounded at the apex but rather abruptly extended into a short (1 cm) blunt acumen, cuneate to nearly rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, usually glabrous, distantly serrate-crenate, (6-)7-12(-18) by 4-7 cm; nerves 5-6 pairs, specially prominent beneath, veins rather densely reticulate-elevated on both sides; petiole 3-6 mm. Panicles rather slender, (10-)12-20 cm, in all parts rather densely greyish patent-pilose. Flowers 5-6-merous, whitish, in spaced 2-3-flowered fascicles. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Bracts narrow-oblong, subacute, 2 by 1 mm, subpersistent. Calyx-tube turbinate, sulcate, shortly but distinctly stipitate at the base. Sepals spathulate, nerved, 4 by 1 mm, rather densely set with spreading hairs. Petals very similar to the sepals, sometimes a little smaller. Stamens normally in fascicles of 3, sometimes of 2 and 3 in the same flower or specimen; filaments pilose at the base only, 2 mm. Ovary villous. Styles 4-5.
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