Tree to 10 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, sparsely lenticellate or not, terete or weakly angled. Leaves: petiole 6-17 mm long, glabrous; blade papery or subcoriaceous, elliptic, 4.6-14.5 by 1.1-5.5 cm, 2.1-3.8 times as long as wide, apex caudate or short to long acuminate with a blunt tip, base acute or cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 7-11 pairs with 3-15 mm spacing, 45-60° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial, 4.5-4.8 cm long with axes 0.9-2.4 cm long and branches 0.8-0.9 mm wide, glabrous; peduncle 0.2-2.6 cm by 0.9-1.4 mm, glabrous; pedicels 1-3.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; subtending bracts persistent; bracts present on pedicel. Sepals ovate, 1.6-1.7 by 1.4 mm, 1.1-1.2 times as long as wide, apex rounded to obtuse, ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Corolla white with a red ‘eye’; tube 27-37 by 2 mm, 1.5-2.1 times as long as lobes, 15.9-23.1 times as long as calyx, pubescent in upper part of tube above, around and slightly below the stamens, throat pubescent, glabrous outside; lobes 13-24 by 4.5-4.8 mm, 2.7-5.3 times as long as wide, elliptic or oblong, apex rounded, ciliate, pubescent at very base of lobes, glabrous outside. Stamens inserted 22-32 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.9 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 1.3-1.5 by 0.6 mm, 2.2-2.5 times as long as wide, 0.8-1.4 mm from corolla throat; filaments c. 0.8 mm long, pubescent. Disk 1-1.1 mm long, 1.1-1.2 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, awl-shaped, apex acute or acuminate. Ovaries c. 0.9 mm high, densely pubescent on top; style 21.5-31 mm long; style head 0.8-0.9 mm long. Fruit unknown.
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