Trees, evergreen, large, height not noted; branches flattened to angled, gray, glabrous. Leaves sessile or subsessile; petiole to 2 mm, glabrous; blade drying leathery, obovate, broadly obovate, broadly elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 13.5-26 × 9.9-19.8 cm, glabrous, base rounded to truncate, obtuse, or cordulate, apex obtuse to acute or shortly acuminate; secondary veins 7-9 pairs, in abaxial axils with pilosulous or foveolate domatia; stipules elliptic-oblong to elliptic, 12-25 × 8-15 mm, glabrous, smooth to weakly keeled, rounded to obtuse. Inflorescences densely strigillose to glabrescent; peduncles 1-3(-5), 2.2-3.5 cm, stout; flowering heads solitary on peduncles, 12-25 mm in diam. across calyces, 34-45 mm in diam. across corollas; bracteoles reportedly sparse, not seen. Calyx with ovary portion 0.8-1.5 mm, glabrous; limb partially lobed, with basal tubular portion 1-1.5 mm, pilosulous at least on apical portion; lobes deciduous before corollas open, with shaft linear, 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous below and densely pilosulous in upper part, with apical portion obconic to thickly fusiform, 2-2.5 mm, pilosulous to glabrescent. Corolla white, funnelform; tube 8-10 mm, glabrous; lobes ligulate to lanceolate, 2-3 mm, puberulent, obtuse to acute. Stigma subglobose to fusiform, ca. 1 mm, exserted for 8-10 mm. Fruiting heads 30-35 mm in diam. Capsules obconic, 8-10 mm, glabrescent. Fl. Jul.
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