Shrubs or small trees, the branchlets glabrescent, often covered with mosses. Leaves elliptic or rarely obovate trapeziform, 16-22 cm long, 6-9.5 cm wide, acute or widely deltoid toward the apex, cuneate or acute at the base, slightly inequilateral, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 10-15, arcuate, the veinlets dense, arising at right angles from the costa, stiffly chartaceous, glabrescent above, beneath with white, appressed hairs; petioles to 1.5 cm long, villose; stipules free, ovate oblong, ca. 2 cm long, ca. 0.5 cm wide at the base, obtuse, red when dry, the hairs few, white. Inflorescences terminal, perhaps solitary, cymose umbellate, the peduncle, rigid, slender, to 8 cm long, ca. 0. 15 cm wide, often twisted, densely pubescent, the flowers secundly disposed and crowded on short branches arising radiately from the apex of the peduncle; pedicels ca. 2 mm long. Flowers with the calyx cup ca. 2.5 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide, cup shaped, expanded, densely ciliolate outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, oblong, ca. 2 mm long, to 1.5 mm wide, rounded at the apex, glabrous within; corolla white, the tube narrowly cylindrical, ca. 9 mm long, ca. 1.8 mm wide, carnose, the hairs outside appressed, minute, glabrous within, the lobes 5, ovate oblong, to 3 mm long, with 2 ovate elliptic appendages within, to 2.8 mm long, petaloid, glabrous, scalloped; anthers 5, sessile or subsessile or filaments to 2.5 mm long, narrow oblong, ca. 3.5 mm long, attached to the tube at or below the middle, often near the base; style (2-)4-10 mm long, the stigmas 2, unequal, scarcely wider than the style, to 2 mm long. Fruits linear oblong, to 2 cm long, to 0.35 cm wide, terete, scarcely angular, the ribs few, prominulous, minutely glandular punctate; seeds spindle shaped ca. 6 mm long, the wing bifid or ero-sulose at the base, acute, entire or fimbriate at the apex.
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