Shrubs, 1-3 m tall; branches compressed, puberulent to glabrous. Petiole 5-20 mm, glabrous to sparsely pilosulous; leaf blade drying membranous, elliptic-oblong to obovate-oblong, 9-18 × 3-3.5 cm, usually with bacterial nodules, adaxially glabrous and somewhat shiny, abaxially sparsely to densely villosulous, base cuneate to acute, apex acuminate; secondary veins 6-8 pairs; stipules broadly ovate-triangular, 2-12 mm, pilosulous to glabrous, acute to obtuse. Inflorescence terminal, 9-11 × ca. 15 cm, pilosulous to glabrescent; peduncle 2.5-4 cm; pedicels 10-12 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx with hypanthium portion ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm, densely pilosulous; limb ca. 1 mm, sparsely pilosulous to glabrescent, lobed for up to 1/2. Corolla white, outside glabrous; tube 10-18 mm, bearded in throat; lobes narrowly oblong, 3-5 mm, obtuse. Style 25-30 mm. Drupe globose, 6-7 mm in diam., glabrous, calyx limb persistent. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Oct-Nov.
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