Shrub or tree to 20 m tall; trunk to 19 cm dbh; bark smooth. Leaves: petiole 2-6 mm long; blade coriaceous to papery, narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate, 8-19 by 2-6 cm, 1.8-5.7 times as long as wide, apex acuminate or subcaudate, base cuneate, glabrous, (6-)7-14 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation obscure; with or without domatia, if present consisting of pits. Inflorescence 1.8-3 cm long, glabrous, 1-7-flowered; peduncle 0-5 mm long; pedicels 5-20 mm long. Sepals 1.5-3 by 1-3 mm, apex rounded to acute, glabrous. Corolla white or pale yellow; tube 9-13 mm long, lower part 8-11 mm long, upper part 1-2 mm long, mostly glabrous, occasionally pubescent outside, at the top, and inside; lobes narrowly elliptic, 8-16 by 3-8 mm, 1.6-3 times as long as wide, sparsely to densely pubescent inside and outside. Stamens exserted, inserted at 10-12 mm from corolla base; anthers 2.5-3.5 by 0.5-1 mm. Disk ring-shaped, 0.7-1 mm high, obscurely 5-lobed. Ovaries 1.7-2 mm high; style 7-11 mm long; style head 1-2 mm long. Fruit 6.5-18.5 by 0.5-1 cm. Seeds: grains 15-23 by 1.5-3 mm; beak glabrous for 5-10 mm, bearing a coma for 10-20 mm; coma hairs 30-50 mm long.
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