Small tree reported at 2 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, not lenticellate, terete or weakly angled. Leaves: petiole 7-12 mm long, glabrous; blade papery to subcoriaceous, elliptic or oblong, 8.5-21.5 by 3.6-7.8 cm, 2.2-5 times as long as wide, apex caudate or long acuminate with a blunt tip, base rounded to cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 23-43 pairs with 2-9 mm spacing, 70° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial, lax, robust, higher order branching is not opposite but alternate, 6-10.2 cm long with axes 2.2-7.5 cm long and branches 1.6-2.2 mm wide, glabrous; peduncle 0.6-4.5 cm by 1.4-2.2 mm, glabrous; pedicels 2.8-5.2 mm long, glabrous; subtending bracts persistent; bracts absent on pedicel. Sepals ovate, 1.3-1.6 by 1-1.6 mm, 1-1.3 times as long as wide, apex rounded or obtuse, ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Corolla completely white; tube 26.5-32 by 1.9-2.6 mm, 1.6-2.1 times as long as lobes, 18.7-20.4 times as long as calyx, pubescent around stamens and slightly beneath inside, throat pubescent, glabrous outside; lobes 13.2-20 by 3.3-6 mm, 3.3-4 times as long as wide, narrowly elliptic or oblong, apex obtuse, not ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted c. 22 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.8 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers c. 2.4 by 0.8 mm, c. 3 times as long as wide, apex 1.1 mm from corolla throat; filaments c. 0.9 mm long, pubescent. Disk c. 0.8 mm long, c. 0.7 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, awl-shaped, apex acuminate. Ovaries c. 1.2 mm high, densely pubescent on top; style c. 19.4 mm long; style head c. 0.9 mm long. Fruit flattened oblique ellipsoid with a blunt hooked spur, c. 16-17 by 7 by 4 mm, densely puberulent.
Home