Shrub, or tree to 3 m high. Leaves opposite, simple; petiole 0.3–1.8 cm long; lamina elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 5–11 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide; secondary veins 9–17 on each side of midrib, divergent at angle of 60–70°. Inflorescences 1-or 2-flowered, to c. 4 cm long; pedicels obsolete. Sepals 2.5–3.5 mm long, abaxially minutely appressed-puberulous. Petals coherent in c. proximal 1/4, 20–40 mm long, cream, abaxially densely appressed-pubescent, adaxially puberulous towards apex, subpersistent in fruit. Staminal filaments connate in c. proximal 3/4, villous at margin; antisepalous ones glandular-muricate towards apex. Stigma capitate. Follicles 8–10 mm long.
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