Shrub or small to medium-sized tree; young branches rusty pubescent. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, rarely ovate to ovate-oblong, ± abruptly bluntly acuminate (1-1.5 cm), broadly cuneate to subrotundate at base, chartaceous to subcoriaceous,with 2 (but sometimes hardly visible) +-distinct dark, rather flat glands at, or somewhat above, the base, midrib excepted glabrous above when old, but tomentose along midrib and nerves beneath, finely serrate to entire, 6½-10(-12) by 2-4(-3½-6) cm; nerves 7-8(-9) pairs; petiole 4-5(-8) mm. Flowers in 3-5-flowered fascicles, rusty-tomentose, with a fragrance of roses. Pedicels (2½-)4-5 mm. Calyx lobes oblong, somewhat inequal, subacute, 6-7 by 2-3 mm. Petals oblanceolate, similar to the calyx-lobes, somewhat longer, but narrower, white-tomentose. Stamens 5-6 mm; filaments glabrous. Corona consisting of a single row of flat ferrugineous woolly threads, half the length of the petals. Ovary ovoid, covered with a white-villous pubescence, very shortly stipitate or nearly sessile. Styles and stigmas white to greenish-white. Fruit ovoid to subglobose, 2-2½(-3) cm diam., 1 mm stipitate; pericarp dry, leathery, yellowish-green and nearly glabrous when ripe. Seeds 2-3, ovoid, flat, scrobiculate, light-brown with a white aril.
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