Shrubs or small trees, height not noted; branches tomentose. Petiole 1-3 cm, tomentose; blade drying thickly papery and blackening, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 8-15 × 4-9 cm, scabrous adaxially, tomentose abaxially, base acute, apex acute or acuminate; secondary veins 10-12, with foveolate and/or pubescent domatia; stipules ovate-triangular, 6-8 mm, tomentose, aristate. Inflorescences terminal on branches with 1 or 2 internodes, laxly corymbose, 5-10 × 5-25 cm, densely tomentose, pedunculate; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm; pedicels 4-8 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx densely tomentose; hypanthium portion ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm; limb ca. 0.5 mm, denticulate to lobed. Corolla white, outside glabrous; tube (6.2-)8-12 mm, sparsely pilose inside; lobes narrowly oblong, 4.6-7 mm, acute. Style 24-33 mm. Drupes globose, ca. 5 mm, tomentulose. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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