Trees, 13–18 m tall; branchlets stout, glabrous. Petiole stout, slightly flattened, narrowly winged, 30–35 mm, sparsely gray-tomentose, glabrescent; leaf blade leathery, broadly obovate to oblong-ovate, widest above middle, 20–32 × 10–14 cm; base cuneate with broad wings decurrent down petiole; apex rounded, shortly apiculate; abaxial surface gray-white, with a thin loose 2-layered indumentum, upper layer arachnoid, tending to disappear in older leaves, lower layer compacted; adaxial surface slightly rugulose, glabrous; midrib and veins prominent abaxially. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, ca. 30-flowered; rachis ca. 30 mm. Pedicel 1–1.5 cm, densely rufous-pubescent; calyx lobes 8, ca. 1 mm; corolla campanulate or funnelform-campanulate, rosy-purple, unspotted, 5–6 × ca. 5 cm, with darker nectar pouches, puberulent at base inside, lobes 8; stamens 16, unequal, filaments glabrous; ovary ca. 7 × 4 mm, 16–20-locular, densely rufous-tomentose; style red, longer than stamens, glabrous, stigma discoid. Fl. Feb–Mar.
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