Tree up to c. 18 m tall. Branchlets sparsely pubescent with minutely stellate hairs. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 10-19 by 5-7 cm, entire, thinly white-hairy beneath, with rather scattered, short, simple hairs above, especially on the midrib and nerves, abruptly acute, base rounded or cuneate; midrib elevated beneath, depressed above; nerves slightly elevated beneath, visible above; petiole 7-10 mm, pubescent. Pedicel c. 1 mm. Calyx (incl. ovary) oblong, 8-12 by 3-5 mm, minutely stellate-hairy outside; lobes 5(-6), ovate, acuminate, 2-3 mm long; tube inside villous in the lower half down to c. 1 mm of the basal part which is, as the bottom, covered with very short, straight hairs. Petals white, obovate (suborbicular when young), 2-3 mm long, fringed with filamentous, c. 1-1.5 mm long appendages in the upper half or third. Ovary c. 1/4-1/6 of the length of the calyx tube, 10-celled; style columnar, 6-8 mm, slightly exserted, covered with short, straight hairs below, glabrous in the upper third; stigma capitate, flat, slightly lobed. Fruit unknown.
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