Branchlets short to long brown tomentose. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, more rarely opposite; petiole 0.5-2.6 cm long; blade papery to subcoriaceous, elliptic to obovate, 1.5-13.5 by 0.6-5.8 cm, 1.8-4.8 times as long as wide, apex acuminate to rounded, sometimes apiculate, base cuneate to obtuse, densely brown velutinous above and beneath to pubescent only on midrib, 4-8 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation reticulate, sometimes prominent beneath. Inflorescence of axillary cymes, frequently umbelliform with the flowers clustered at the ends, 2-10.5 cm long; densely brown velutinous; peduncles 0.9-7.5 cm long; pedicels 2-6.1 mm long. Sepals linear, strongly reflexed, more rarely erect and/or broader obovate, 2-4.5 by 0.5-1.4(-2.2) mm, (1.7-) 1.9-7 times as long as wide, tomentose. Corolla yellowish, buds cylindrical, head acute to acuminate, lobes slightly overlapping, open corolla salverform; tube 2.1-4.5 mm long, 0.8-1.8 times as long as sepals, 1-2.5 times as long as lobes; lobes triangular, apex acute to acuminate, 1.3-2.6 by 0.6-1.2 mm; sparsely to densely brown pubescent or, rarely, glabrous outside, pubescent in upper tube inside. Stamens inserted at 0.5-0.8 mm from corolla base which is 0.1-0.2 of tube length; filaments straight, narrow, pubescent, 1.1-2 mm long; anthers narrowly triangular, tails squared, flattened, 2.4-3.5 by 0.5-0.6 mm, 4.8-7 times as long as wide. Disk of 5 separate lobes, elliptic, acute to notched at apex, 0.7-1.1 mm long. Ovary 0.7-1 mm long; style 1.1-2.1 mm long; style head 0.6-1 mm long. Fruit linear, minutely puberulent; 2.2-39 cm by 3.2-5.3 mm. Seeds: grain 7-17 by 0.4-2 mm; coma yellowish, 1.3-4.7 cm long.
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