Robust shrub or small tree, sometimes to 6 m tall. New shoots glabrous except a few, straight, rusty hairs on upper surface of leaves. Leaves with petiole 5-9 mm long; lamina ovate to obovate, 15-30 mm long, 9-19 mm wide, obtuse but apiculate, serrate, thick; margins flat to slightly recurved. Conflorescence terminal; rachis 2-6 cm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; bracts ovate, obtuse to acuminate, 3.5-4.5 mm long, ciliate. Perianth 7-8.5 mm long, white. Hypogynous glands orbicular to square, thick, 0.2 mm long. Gynoecium 6-7 mm long; ovary rusty-villous. Follicle oblong-elliptic, abaxially broadened at base, beaked, 10-20 mm long, glabrous. Seed surrounded by wing.
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