Shrubs or small trees, 3-6 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets slender, appressed pubescent; terminal buds small, yellow sericeous. Petiole 3-5 mm, appressed pubescent; leaf blade obovate-elliptic to long obovate, 6-11 × 2.5-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, adaxially dark green and shiny, abaxially pale green and glabrous or basally sparsely pubescent, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins obscure on both surfaces, base cuneate and decurrent, margin serrate, apex obtuse and emarginate. Flowers axillary, solitary or 3-5 in a short raceme, 4-5 cm in diam. Pedicel 2-3 mm; bracteoles 6 or 7, caducous. Sepals 5, suborbicular, ca. 1 cm in diam., leathery, outside basally white farinose-sericeous but apically purplish brown and glabrous, inside glabrous, margin membranous. Petals 5, white, suborbicular, ca. 3 cm in diam., basally connate for ca. 3 mm, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 1.5 cm; filaments glabrous, basally adnate to petals. Ovary ovoid, white tomentose, 5-loculed; style ca. 1.2 cm, basally white tomentose. Capsule oblong-cylindric, 3-3.5 × ca. 1.5 cm, apex acute; pericarp woody; pedicel to 1 cm. Seeds together with wing ca. 2 × 0.5 mm. Fl. Nov-Dec, fr. Aug-Sep.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-6 m tall. The leaves are narrowly oval and 6-11 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. They are pale green underneath. The flowers can occur singly or in groups of 3-5 in the axils of leaves. They are 4-5 cm across. The petals are white. The fruit are cylinder shaped capsules 3-4 cm long by 1.5 cm wide.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in thickets or forests between 1,100-2,400 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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