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Leaf blades 6.6–29.5 × 4.3–14.4 cm, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, shortly to distinctly acuminate at the apex, ± rounded to cuneate at the base, almost glabrous except for short hairs on the venation to rather sparsely pubescent above, sparsely to densely or almost velvety pubescent beneath, with small axillary tufts of hairs visible in the more glabrescent leaves; petiole 0.3–1.7 cm long, hairy like the stems, with longer hairs on the lateral angles; stipules 0.8–2.3 × 1.1–2.6 cm, broad, obtuse at the apex, narrowed beneath, the narrowest part just above the base, somewhat mushroom-shaped, with a basal triangular part pubescent outside tapering into a median line of hairs at its apex or pubescent all over.
Shrub (sometimes scrambling) or small tree (1.5)2.5–7.5(10) m tall; bark ± scaly, slash cream-coloured with minute speckles; young stems densely to rather sparsely pubescent and with a fine understorey of much shorter indumentum.
Inflorescence subcapitate, terminating lateral shoots; peduncle 0–1.2(2) cm long, ± densely pubescent; pedicels 0.2–1.4 cm long; bracts opposite, 3-fid, leafy, the divisions lanceolate; bracteoles 1.1–1.5 cm long.
Corolla white, densely hairy outside; tube 2.2–11 cm long, 5–8 mm wide at the apex, 1–4 mm wide at the base; lobes 1.6–5.2 × 0.2–1 cm, lanceolate, acute.
Calyx densely pubescent; tube 2–5 × 1–3 mm; limb-tube very short or absent; lobes 0.9–2.1 × 2–6 cm, lanceolate, acute.
Fruits 1.1–2 × 0.7–1.4 cm, oblong-ellipsoid to ovoid-subglobose, ridged in dry state, at first densely pubescent.
Seeds dark brown, angular, 1.5–2 mm long and wide, slightly glossy, with a hilar pit.
Pollen presenter included; anthers with tips exserted.
Flowers scented, 5–6-merous.
