Tree to 10 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, lenticellate or not, terete or weakly angled. Leaves: petiole 3-12.5 mm long, glabrous; blade coriaceous, elliptic, 4.7-27.5 by 2.3-11 cm, 1.9-3.2 times as long as wide, apex short acuminate with a blunt tip, base acute or cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 8-20 pairs with 6.5-18 mm spacing, 60-70° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial, often with robust cincinnate branches, 5-12.5 cm long with axes 1-9.5 cm long and branches 1.4-2.9 mm wide, glabrous to densely puberulent; peduncle 0.4-4.5 cm by 1.3-3 mm, glabrous or puberulent; pedicels 0-6.5 mm long, glabrous to densely puberulent; subtending bracts persistent; bracts present on pedicel. Sepals oblong, 1.5-3.5 by 1.4-2.2 mm, 1.1-1.6 times as long as wide, apex rounded, ciliate, glabrous to densely puberulent outside, glabrous inside. Corolla white, pale pink with darker pink ‘eye’, or white with a pink tinge; tube 24-45 by 2-2.7 mm, 1.1-1.5 times as long as lobes, 8.3-16 times as long as calyx, pubescent in upper part of tube above, around and slightly below the stamens, throat pubescent, glabrous or sparsely puberulent at top of tube outside; lobes 15-31 by 9.5-16.5 mm, 1.8-1.9 times as long as wide, obovate, apex rounded, not ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens 22.4-35 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.8 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 2.2-2.6 by 0.6-0.8 mm, 2.9-4 times as long as wide, apex 2.2-4 mm from corolla throat; filaments 0.7-1.1 mm long, glabrous. Disk 0.8-2 mm long, 0.7-1.4 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, narrowly ovate, apex acuminate. Ovaries 1.2-2.5 mm high, glabrous or with just one or two hairs; style c. 22.5 mm long; style head c. 1.2 mm long. Fruit falcate with a blunt hooked spur from around the middle of the fruit, 15-18 by 4.5-5.5 by 8-9 mm, spur 2.5-4.5 mm long, sparsely puberulent.
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