Small tree, reported up to 7 m. tall, the younger parts, petioles, panicle, and hypanthium thinly tomentose with stellate hairs; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades oblong to oblong-elliptic, up to 15 cm. long, two-fifths to half as wide, abruptly narrowed above into a caudate tip 1-2 cm. long, entire, obtuse to rounded at base, 3-nerved with an additional pair of marginal nerves (in one specimen 5-pli-nerved!), glabrous above, stellate-tomentose on the primary nerves beneath, thinly so on the veinlets, glabrous or nearly so on the surface; panicle to 15 cm. long, widely branched; actual pedicels about 1 mm. long; hypanthium cup-shaped, 2-2.5 mm. long to the torus; calyx-tube prolonged about 0.4 mm., the lobes semicircular, about 0.5 mm. long from the sinus, surpassing the triangular adnate exterior teeth; petals white, broadly obovate, 2-3 mm. long; stamens isomorphic; anthers oblong or oblong-obovate, about 2 mm. long; connective dilated toward the base, elevated into a conspicuous dorsal protuberance, and prolonged below the thecae into two deflexed lateral lobes; stigma capitate.
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