Tree to 7 m high. Shoots puberulous or villous with light brown hairs. Leaves: petiole 2–4 mm long; lamina lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate or elliptic, 5–16 cm long, 2–7 cm wide, rounded or slightly cordate and asymmetric at base, acuminate or acute at apex, puberulous or glabrous above, sparsely puberulous below; secondary veins 7–10 pairs. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicel 30-40 mm long, puberulous; bract 0.5–1 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate to depressed-ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm long, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate, puberulous outside. Petals white tinged pink. Outer petals obovate, depressed-obovate or suborbicular, 6–8 mm long and wide, obtuse or very shortly acuminate, puberulous outside. Inner petals 10–14 mm long; dome 8–10 mm diam.; blade 10–12 mm wide; glands discrete, crimson. Male flowers: stamens 1.1–1.3 mm long. Female flowers: carpels c. 28, pilose; ovules 1 or 2. Apocarps obovoid, 15–22 mm long, rounded or shortly pointed, puberulous, orange. Seeds 1 or 2; testa scrobiculate, red-brown.
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