Tree up to 8 m. high with rounded crown and grey bark.. Branches hairy and densely leafy.. Leaves with blade broadly oblanceolate to obovate, together with petiole up to 1.5–6.5 cm. long and 1–2.7 cm. broad, blunt at apex, sessile or narrowed into the up to 3 mm. long petiole, dull green, paler beneath, shortly patent-hairy, soon glabrescent except on the petiole; midrib and ±12 alternately stronger and weaker lateral nerves on either side slightly impressed above, the latter flat but relatively broad beneath; reticulation dense, uniform, delicately engraved above, dark coloured beneath and finally turning pale but hardly prominulous.. Inflorescences terminal, subracemose, few-flowered, here and there with 2-flowered branches, rather densely covered overall with short patent hairs; bracts subulate, up to 6 mm. long, ciliolate.. Flowers yellowish-white on 10–18 mm. long hairy pedicels.. Sepals free, not imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, 4–6 mm. long and 1.5–2.5 mm. broad, subacute, sparsely hairy.. Petals sublinear, 10–14 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, erect.. Fertile stamens 6–7 mm. long with 2 mm. long anthers; sterile stamens unknown.. Gynoecium up to 7 mm. long if sterile (fertile unknown), with slightly hairy ovary.. Capsules shortly stipitate, more than 4-seeded; valves of completely ripe capsule unknown, but valves of just opened capsule broadly ovate, ± 13 mm. long, rugulose, glabrescent except at base.
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