Branchlets densely brown velutinous. Leaves opposite; petiole 1.7-6.5 cm long; blade papery to coriaceous, ovate, rarely elliptic or obovate, 7-26 by 3.6-19.3 cm, 1.2-1.9 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base cordate, densely velutinous above and beneath, 6-9 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation reticulate. Inflorescence of axillary and, sometimes, terminal cymes, 6.8-19.5 cm long, densely velutinous; peduncles 2.7-13.5 cm long; pedicels 1.5-4 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1.7-3.9 by 0.8-1.5 mm, 1.4-3.8 times as long as wide, apex acute to obtuse, erect to reflexed, densely velutinous. Corolla cream or yellowish, buds cylindrical with an acuminate head, lobes slightly overlapping, open corolla salverform; tube 2.8-5.7 mm long, 1-2.4 times as long as sepals, 1.1-2.5 times as long as lobes; lobes triangular, 1.8-3 by 0.9-1.2 mm, apex acuminate, papillose inside; pubescent outside on tube and lobes, bearded in throat and in 5 rows down tube. Stamens inserted at 1.5-2.9 mm from corolla base which is 0.4-0.5 of tube length; filaments straight to curved, 0.5-0.7 mm long; anthers narrowly triangular, tails squared, 2.2-3 by 0.4-0.6 mm, 4.2-6 times as long as wide. Disk of 5 separate lobes, oblong, apex notched or 3-dentate, 0.9-2 mm long. Ovary 0.6-0.8 mm long; 1.7-3 mm long; style head 0.7-1 mm long. Fruit broad fusiform, densely brown pubescent; 7.8-12 by 1.5-2.3 cm. Seeds: grain 11.3-13 by 1.9-2.4 mm, coma 3-3.9 cm long.
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