Tree to 10 m tall. Leaves: petiole 2-12 mm long; blade papery to coriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 3.6-10 by 1.5-4.3 cm, 1.6-4.7 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acuminate with a blunt apex, base cuneate or decurrent onto petiole, glabrous, 5-8 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation obscure; domatia present or absent. Inflorescence 1-4-flowered, 4.5-7 cm long; peduncle 0-3 mm long; pedicels 9-25 mm long. Sepals 1.5-2 by 1.5 mm, apex acute, glabrous, colleters absent inside. Corolla white; tube 10-16 mm long, lower part 4-5 mm long, upper part 5-12 mm long, outside very minutely and sparsely puberulent, inside pubescent at top of tube; lobes narrowly elliptic, 25-33 by 3-4 mm, 7.5-10 times as long as wide, outside very minutely and sparsely puberulent, inside glabrous except at base of lobes. Stamens not exserted from corolla tube, inserted at 4-5 mm from corolla base; anthers 4.7-6 by 1-1.1 mm. Disk ring-shaped, 5-crenate, 0.8-1 mm high, sparsely puberulent. Ovaries 1.2-2 mm high, sparsely puberulent; style c. 3 mm long; style head c. 2 mm long. Fruit apex acuminate, 8.4-9.3 cm by 6.5-7.5 mm. Seeds: grain 17-18 by 2.8-3.1 mm; beak glabrous for 3.5-3.9 mm, bearing a coma for 15-17 mm; coma hairs 19-31 mm long.
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