Tree to 3 m tall. Bark grey. Branchlets glabrous, sparsely to densely lenticellate or not. Leaves: petiole 2-12 mm long, glabrous; blade papery, elliptic or oblong, 5.2-22 by 1.4-6.8 cm, 3.1-4.4 times as long as wide, apex caudate to long acuminate with a blunt tip, base cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 12-20 pairs with 2.5-18 mm spacing, 50-70° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial or cincinnate, 3.5-14 cm long with axes 1.7-12 cm long and branches 0.9-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; peduncle 0.8-5.4 cm by 1-1.8 mm, glabrous; pedicels 1.2-3.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, subtending bracts deciduous, bracts present on pedicel. Sepals ovate, 1-2.1 by 1-1.4 mm, 0.8-1.5 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acute, ciliate, glabrous outside, glabrous or puberulent at tips inside. Corolla completely white or white with a yellow ‘eye’; tube 20-26 by 1.1-6.1 mm, 1.3-1.8 times as long as lobes, 10.2-21 times as long as calyx, pubescent in upper part of tube above or around and slightly below the stamens, pubescent in throat, glabrous outside; lobes 11.5-20 by 3.8-8 mm, 1.8-3.7 times as long as wide, elliptic, apex obtuse to acute, ciliate or not, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted 6-9.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.4 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 1.7-2.5 by 0.4-0.6 mm, 3.8-5 times as long as wide, apex 1.1-10.7 mm from corolla throat; filaments 0.6-1 mm long, pubescent. Disk 0.7-1.1 mm long, 0.8-1.1 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, awl-shaped, apex acute. Ovaries 0.8-1.1 mm high, densely long pubescent on top or densely pubescent all over; style 4.9-7.3 mm long; style head 0.9-1.5 mm long. Fruit (immature) falcate with a small or blunt hooked spur, sparsely puberulent (see note).
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