Shrub 1.5-2.5 m (once recorded); twigs appressedly pubescent at least towards the apex, diam. 6-10 mm, terminal buds appressedly hairy. Leaves brown when dry, coriaceous, very finely (short) appressedly hairy at least when young, glaucous beneath, ± elliptic to somewhat obovate, 9-22 by 4-8 cm; apex rounded to bluntly acute, margin rather strongly recurved, base cuneate; nerves in 10-14 pairs, slightly curved upwards and meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; reticulation prominent at both sides but often more or less obscured below, rather coarse, diameter of the alveoles much more than 1 mm. Petiole when young with same indumentum as twigs, glabrescent, 1.5-3 cm long, stipular scar up to c. ¾ of its length. Peduncle appressedly pubescent, 4.5-10 cm, with 5-8 nodes, diam. at apex 6-7 mm. Tepals 22-45 mm, the outer three somewhat longer than the inner 6. Stamens 8-12 mm; carpels c. 20-25, pubescent, with rather long styles. Fruit glabrous, c. 5 by 3 cm, the stylar spines persistent.
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