Shrub or small tree to 10 m. tall, the younger parts, including the leaves, more or less stellate-tomentose when young, glabrescent in age; petioles slender, 5-15 mm. long; leaf-blades thin, oblanceolate to obovate, up to 25 cm. long, a third to half as wide, abruptly but conspicuously acuminate, entire, gradually narrowed below to an obtuse or acute base, 3-nerved; inflorescence normally a single, elongate, spiciform cluster 1-2 dm. long, floriferous nearly to the base, the flowers sessile in lateral glomerules of 2-4; hypanthium campanulate, 2.5 mm. long to the torus, thinly stellate-pubescent; calyx about 0.5 mm. long, nearly truncate; exterior teeth none; petals white, 1.5-2 mm. long, thinly stellulate on both sides; stamens isomorphic; anthers 2.5-3 mm. long, somewhat incurved, with convolute thecae and simple connective.
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