Shrub 1–2 m. tall; young branches covered with patent hairs; older branches with thin, fawn corky bark.. Leaf-blades usually drying blackish, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 9–16.5 cm. long, 3–5.6 cm. wide, apex acuminate, base acute to cuneate, sparsely pubescent-strigose with midrib densely pubescent and lateral nerves often impressed above, pubescent with dense spreading hairs on nerves beneath; bacterial nodules absent; petioles 0.4–1.1 cm. long, densely pubescent; stipule-limbs fawnish, tending to be corky, triangular to subtruncate, 2.75–4 mm. long, pubescent outside; arista drying blackish, 9–14 mm. long, pubescent.. Corymbs borne on lateral branches 12–16 cm. long bearing usually 1–2 pairs of leaves, moderately lax, 4–4.5 cm. across; primary inflorescence-branches 0.6–1.4 cm. long, covered with patent hairs; secondary branches present; pedicels 2–3 mm. long, covered with patent hairs; bracts ± stipule-like; bracteoles inconspicuous.. Calyx-tube ± 2 mm. long, very densely covered with white to fawn patent hairs; limb-tube 0–2.5 mm. long; lobes subulate, 2.5–7 mm. long, less than 0.25 mm. wide at base, covered with patent hairs.. Corolla-tube 1.4–2.1 cm. long, 2 mm. wide at top, pubescent outside, sparsely pubescent inside; lobes ± 0.7–1.2 cm. long, ± 2 mm. wide.. Fruit blackish, 0.7 mm. in diameter, pubescent.. Mature seeds not known.
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