Tree to 25 m tall; trunk to 45 cm dbh; bark grey, blackish or dark brown. Leaves: petiole 5-10 mm long; blade coriaceous, narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic, 12.5-33.5 by 4.5-8 cm, 2.7-4.2 times as long as wide, apex acute, acuminate or caudate with a sharp point, base cuneate, 10-16 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation conspicuous; domatia present. Inflorescence 1-or 2-flowered, 7.5-9 cm long; peduncle 5-10 mm long; pedicels 15-20 mm long. Sepals 5.5-8 by 4-5 mm, apex acute, glabrous, colleters inside. Corolla yellow or creamy; tube (25-)28-33 mm long, lower part 5-8 mm long, upper part 20-25 mm long; lobes narrowly elliptic, (30-)55-60 by (7-)15-20 mm, 3.2-3.6 times as long as wide, outside glabrous except puberulent at top of tube, inside pubescent. Stamens not exserted from corolla tube, inserted at 6-7 mm from corolla base; anthers 5-6 by 1.5-2 mm. Disk cup-shaped, 3-3.3 mm high, 5-lobed. Ovaries 3-3.3 mm high; style 8-8.5 mm long; style head 2-3.5 mm long. Fruit 23-31.5 by 1-2 cm. Seeds: grain 17-30 by 3-4 mm; beak glabrous for 5-20 mm, bearing a coma for 25-70 mm; coma hairs 25-70 mm long.
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