Shrub or small tree up to 12 m tall. Branches and branchlets covered with rusty-stellate hairs. Leaves ovate-oblong to obovate-oblong, 9-19 by 3.5-7 cm, shortly acuminate to acute, base rounded or acute, margin with tufted hairs, sometimes glabrous; midrib and nerves elevated beneath, slightly depressed or plane above; petiole 4-10 mm, with minutely stellate hairs. Stipules 13 mm long. Calyx (incl. ovary) cylindric or slightly campanulate-tubular, 9-12 by 4-5 mm, densely stellate-hairy outside, lobes 5(-6), deltoid, c. 2 mm long, acuminate, lower part of the tube inside with short, straight hairs; pedicels 6-10 mm. Petals obovate-oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm long, the top fringed with filamentous, up to c. 2 mm long appendages. Ovary half the length of the calyx tube; style columnar, c. 3/4 the length of the calyx tube, covered with short, straight hairs, stigma capitate, slightly grooved. Fruits subglobose, c. 9 mm diam., calyx lobes erect. Seeds ellipsoid, 1.5 mm long, slightly transversely striate.
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