Branchlets sparsely puberulent to glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole 1.6-4 cm long; blade papery to coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, 9-18.2 by 4.2-8.6 cm, 1.7-2.2 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded, glabrous or sparsely puberulent beneath, 6 or 7 pairs of secondary veins. Inflorescence an axillary cyme, 6.8-8 cm long, puberulent on upper parts; pedicels 6-9.6 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1.5-2.4 by 1.1-1.5 mm, 1.3-1.7 times as long as wide, apex acute to acuminate, puberulent. Corolla white, greenish or yellowish, buds ovoid, lobes slightly overlapping, open corolla campanulate; tube 2.7-3.8 mm long, 1.6-1.8 times as long as sepals, 1.4-2 times as long as lobes; lobes ovate, 3.6-3.8 mm long, apex acute; puberulent and papillose on lobes outside, densely long pubescent inside. Stamens inserted at c. 1.8 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.5 of tube length; filaments strongly bent, 3.5-4 mm long; anthers narrowly triangular with incurving tails, 4.9-5 by 0.9-1 mm, 5-5.4 times as long as wide. Disk annular, 5-crenate, 1.1-1.4 mm long. Ovary 1-1.1 mm long; style c. 2.8 mm long; style head c. 0.7 mm long. Fruit linear, 14.7-15.1 cm by 8-9 mm. Seeds 11.2-14.2 by 1.9-2.2 mm; coma 2.1-4.5 cm long.
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