Shrub or small tree 4.5–16 m. tall; young branches glabrous, older branches covered with fawn slightly shiny gnarled bark.. Leaves glabrous; blades drying green to greyish or bronze-green, coriaceous, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, oblong-elliptic or occasionally elliptic, 6.5–17.5 cm. long, 2.3–5.6 cm. wide, obtuse or less often acute at apex, acute at base, midrib straw-coloured to fawn when dry, prominent beneath, with ± 12 pairs of lateral nerves, not impressed above, tertiary nerves apparent but not discolourous; petioles 5–8(–12) mm. long; stipule-limbs truncate, 2–4(–5.5) mm. long, often becoming corky; lobe keeled, 1–2 mm. long.. Corymbs 2.7–8.7 cm. across; peduncle 2–6(–8.7) cm. long, glabrous; primary inflorescence-branches up to 2.4(–3.2 in fruit) cm. long; pedicels 0–4(–7) mm. long, glabrous; inflorescence-supporting leaf-blades broadly elliptic to ovate or occasionally elliptic, 1.6–9.8 cm. long, 0.9–4.4 cm. wide, obtuse or less often acute at apex, cordate or rounded to obtuse at base; petiole ± 1 mm. long; bracteoles lanceolate to narrowly ovate, usually with one pair at the base of each calyx-tube.. Calyx glabrous; tube 2 mm. long; limb-tube 0.5–0.75 mm. long; lobes shortly triangular, 0.5–1 mm. long, acute.. Corolla white or cream and pink at the base; tube 3.6–5.8 cm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide at top; lobes oblong-elliptic, 7–8 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. wide, obtuse.. Fruit 0.9–1.1 cm. in diameter; calyx-limb persistent.. Seeds (undeveloped) rusty brown, 7.5 mm. wide.
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