Shrub or small tree 3–7.5(–12) m. tall; young stems densely finely yellowish pubescent, becoming glabrescent.. Leaves yellow-green (as in aluminium-accumulating plants); blades deeply furrowed, elliptic-oblong, (7–)9.6–15.5(–23.5) cm. long, 2–5.6(–8.4) cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, pubescent on main nerves particularly beneath or almost glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 16–20 on each side; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm. long; stipules ovate-triangular or ovate, 0.5–1.8 cm. long, 0.3–1.2 cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, adpressed pubescent, eventually deciduous.. Flowers in extensive terminal and axillary inflorescences (the axillary ones actually often branches bearing one pair of leaves), 8–25 cm. long and wide; peduncles 3–8.5 cm. long; secondary peduncles 2–4 cm. long; pedicels 0.5–5 mm. long; whorls of bracts absent, but sometimes a few scattered lanceolate bracts ± 5 mm. long; all parts of inflorescence densely adpressed yellowish tomentose-pubescent.. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, the tube 0.5–1 mm. long, the limb-tube 0.6–1 mm. long, the shallow teeth up to ± 0.3 mm. long.. Corolla pubescent outside, green or greenish white; tube 1.4–2.7 mm. long; lobes triangular, 0.9–2.1 mm. long, 0.6–1.4 mm. wide.. Stamens almost as long as the corolla-lobes in short-styled flowers, almost completely included in long-styled flowers.. Disc apically pubescent.. Style hairy, 2–2.8 mm. long in long-styled flowers, 0.8–0.9 mm. long in short-styled flowers; stigma 0.5–1.1 mm. long.. Berries greenish, subglobose, 5–7 mm. in diameter, crowned by the cupular calyx-limb.. Seeds brownish red, ellipsoid, ± 1 mm. long, strongly wrinkled and pitted.
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Shrub or small tree 10-20 ft. high
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