Branchlets glabrous to sparsely puberulent. Leaves opposite; petiole 2-10 mm long, puberulent; blade ovate, margin inrolled, 1-5.1 by 0.5-2.4 cm, 1.4-3.6 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded, sometimes puberulent on midrib beneath, 3-6 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence of axillary cymes, flowers clustered, 1.5-3 cm long, short brown pubescent; peduncles 0.8-2.1 cm long; pedicels 2.1-4 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1-1.4 by 0.5-0.9 mm, 1.3-2.2 times as long as wide, apex acuminate to obtuse, puberulent. Corolla purplish brown to cream, buds ovoid, apex acute, lobes slightly overlapping, open corolla campanulate to subcampanulate; tube 1.3-2 mm long, 1.2-1.8 times as long as sepals, 0.4-0.8 times as long as lobes; lobes triangular to linear, 2.1-3.2 by 0.9-1.3 mm; sparsely and shortly pubescent outside, pubescent in throat with downward pointing hairs. Stamens inserted at 0.5-0.7 mm from corolla base which is 0.4-0.5 of tube length; filaments straight or curved, somewhat wider at base, 0.9-1.9 mm long; anthers oblong, tails curved in towards each other, 2.4-3.2 by 0.5-0.6 mm, 4.7-6.4 times as long as wide. Disk of 5 separate lobes, oblong, apex acuminate, 0.9-1.2 mm long. Ovary 0.4-1 mm long; style 1.5-2.3 mm long; style head 0.5-0.9 mm long. Fruit linear, minutely and very sparsely puberulent, 7-10.8 cm long. Seeds: grain 5-6.5 by 1.5-2 mm; coma 0.7-1.6 cm long.
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