Tree to 4 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, sparsely lenticellate or not, terete. Leaves sessile; blade subcoriaceous or coriaceous, elliptic, 6-20.5 by 2.1-8.1 cm, 1.4-3.2 times as long as wide, apex short acuminate with a blunt tip, base rounded to acute, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 11-15 pairs with 5-18 mm spacing, 50-70° from midrib. Inflorescence dichasial, 5.6-6.3 cm long with axes 0.3-1.7 cm long and branches 0.7-1.3 mm wide, glabrous; peduncle 0-1.2 cm by 1.4-1.7 mm, glabrous; pedicels 1.2-2.5 mm long, glabrous; subtending bracts persistent; bracts several on each pedicel. Sepals ovate, 1.6-2.9 by 1.3-2 mm, 1.1-1.5 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, ciliate, glabrous outside, puberulent at tips inside. Corolla white with a pink tinge or pink with a red ‘eye’; tube 34-41 by 2.7-2.8 mm, 1.6-2.3 times as long as lobes, 14.1-25.6 times as long as calyx, pubescent in upper part of tube above, around and slightly below the stamens, throat pubescent, glabrous outside; lobes 18-25 by 8-14 mm, 1.3-2.2 times as long as wide, elliptic or broadly elliptic, apex rounded or obtuse, not ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted 35-37.5 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.9 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 1.7-1.9 by 0.5 mm, 3.4-3.8 times as long as wide, 1.8-1.9 mm from corolla throat; filaments 0.9-1.4 mm long, glabrous. Disk c. 1.2 mm long, c. 1.5 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, awl-shaped, apex acute. Ovaries c. 0.8 mm high, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on top; style 34-37.5 mm long; style head 0.9-1.1 mm long. Fruit unknown.
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