Tree to 5 m tall, to 24 cm dbh. Bark ashy-brown or grey. Branchlets glabrous, not lenticellate or sparsely lenticellate. Leaves: petiole 3-10 mm long, glabrous; blade papery to subcoriaceous, elliptic to oblong, 5.7-20 by 1.6-8 cm, 2-5.3 times as long as wide, apex caudate or long acuminate with a blunt tip, base acute or cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 9-28 pairs with 1-10 mm spacing, 45-80° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial, lax, 5-12 cm long of which the axes are 1.2-7 cm long and branches 0.7-1 mm wide, glabrous; peduncle 0.5-6 cm by 0.9-1.5 mm, glabrous; pedicels 1-3.5 mm long, glabrous, subtending bracts persistent, bracts present or absent on pedicel. Sepals ovate or oblong, 1.4-1.8 by 0.7-1.4 mm, 1.1-2.1 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Corolla completely white or white with yellow ‘eye’; tube 31-40 by 1.6-2.4 mm, 1.6-2.2 times as long as lobes, 19.4-26 times as long as calyx, pubescent around and beneath stamens and in throat, glabrous outside; lobes 16-23 by 4.5-7 mm, 2.5-4.6 times as long as wide, elliptic, apex obtuse or acute, ciliate or not, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted 26.5-35 mm from corolla base which is 0.8-0.9 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 2-2.3 by 0.5-0.7 mm, 3.3-4.6 times as long as wide, apex 1.7-2.6 mm from corolla throat; filaments 0.7-1 mm long, pubescent. Disk 0.8-1.4 mm long, 0.8-1.2 times as long as ovaries, pubescent, awl-shaped, apex acute. Ovaries 0.8-1.4 mm high, densely pubescent on top or densely pubescent all over; style 26-32 mm long; style head 0.8-1.2 mm long. Fruit falcate with a small spur, 19-21 by 7-8 by 3 mm, spur 3-4 mm long; sparsely puberulent.
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