Tree to 6.1 m tall. Branchlets glabrous to densely puberulent, sparsely lenticellate or not, terete to weakly angled. Leaves: petiole 3-8 mm long, glabrous to densely pubescent; blade papery or subcoriaceous, elliptic to obovate, 7.5-24.5 by 1.6-9.2 cm, 2.2-4.6 times as long as wide, apex caudate or short to long acuminate with a blunt tip, base acute or cuneate, glabrous to puberulent on midrib and major veins beneath, secondary veins 8-23 pairs with 3.3-15 mm spacing, 50-65° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial, mostly also with cincinnate branches, 3.2-11 cm long with axes 0.8-7.3 cm long and branches 1.2-2.5 mm wide, glabrous to densely puberulent; peduncle 0.3-2.7 cm by 1.4-2.8 mm, glabrous to puberulent; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous to densely puberulent; subtending bracts persistent; bracts present on pedicel. Sepals ovate or oblong, 1.7-2.5 by 1.6-1.7 mm, 1-1.6 times as long as wide, apex rounded, margin ciliate, glabrous to densely puberulent, glabrous inside. Corolla completely white or white with a yellow ‘eye’; tube 22-32 by 1.4-1.9 mm, 1.5-1.8 times as long as lobes, 8.8-16 times as long as calyx, pubescent around stamens and slightly beneath inside or pubescent around and beneath stamens and in throat, glabrous inbetween, throat pubescent, sometimes so shortly so as to appear papillose, glabrous outside; lobes 13-21 by 5.3-12.5 mm, 1.2-2.5 times as long as wide, elliptic or broadly elliptic, apex rounded, ciliate or not, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens 8.5-12 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.5 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 2.3-2.4 by 0.4-0.7 mm, 3.4-5.1 times as long as wide, apex 9.7-12.5 mm from corolla throat; filaments 0.6 mm long. Disk 0.6-1.3 mm long, 0.6-1.1 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, awl-shaped, apex acute to obtuse. Ovaries 0.8-1.2 mm high, sparsely to densely pubescent on top; style 8.5-9.6 mm long; style head c. 1 mm long. Fruit with a blunt hooked spur from about the middle of the fruit, 15-18 by 8-8.5 mm, spur c. 4 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.
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