Branchlets sparsely villous, puberulent or glabrous, becoming glabrous with age; often sparsely lenticellate. Leaves: petiole glabrous or puberulent, (0.4-)0.6-1.6 cm long; blade orbicular, elliptic or obovate, 1.1-3.3 times as long as wide, (0.6-)3-11.5 by (0.3-)1-5.6 cm, apex usually short blunt acuminate, sometimes obtuse or rounded, base cuneate to rounded; coriaceous, rarely subcoriaceous; very sparsely puberulent on midrib beneath, sparsely puberulent all over beneath, completely glabrous or, rarely, sparsely villous beneath; 5-16 pairs of secondary veins. Inflorescence axillary and terminal; 1.2-12 cm long; peduncle tomentose or puberulent, rarely glabrous; pedicels tomentose or puberulent, 0.4-2.1 mm long. Sepals ovate, 0.7-2 times as long as wide, 0.8-1.5 by 0.6-1.1 mm, apex obtuse to rounded, tomentose or puberulent; colleters few or many. Corolla cream; in bud tube somewhat inflated and with a small narrow head; tube 2.1-5 by 1.2-1.5 mm, 2.5-3.6 times as long as calyx, 1.7-3.3 times as long as lobes, outside glabrous or rarely puberulent, pubescent inside in upper part of tube; lobes 0.7-2.1 by 0.7-0.9 mm, 1.1-1.8 times as long as wide, outside glabrous or rarely puberulent, densely pubescent in tube throat. Stamens inserted 1.2-2.3 mm from base which is 0.4-0.6 of tube length; anthers subsessile, 3.6-5.3 times as long as wide, 1.3-2.5 by 0.3-0.7 mm, narrow triangular, apex acuminate, base sagittate; included in the corolla tube or very slightly exserted. Disk entire, broadly 5-lobed, 0.2-0.5 times as long as ovary, 0.2-0.5 mm long. Ovaries 0.6-1.2 mm long, pubescent; style 0.5-1.2 mm long; style head 0.6-1 mm long with a cup-shaped base. Fruit glabrous; 1.8-7.2 cm by 2.5-5.6 mm. Seeds linear; 1.2-2.9 cm by 1.3-2.3 mm; coma fawn, 1.8-4.6 cm long.
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