Erect shrubs or small trees, 3–5 m tall; branchlets stout, cylindric, pale gray-brown at maturity, red-brown when young, glabrous. Petioles stout, ca. 10 mm. Leaf blade thickly leathery, long-elliptic or subelliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 5–12(–21) × 2.5–5(–8) cm; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute or with a sickle-shaped acumen; both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins 14–18-paired, becoming conspicuous on both surfaces on drying. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, 5–6-flowered; peduncle short and stout, ca. 5 mm, glabrous. Pedicel 1–1.5 cm, glabrous; calyx usually obscure, sometimes developed and then lobes membranous, linear, to 17 mm, pubescent, margin sparsely fimbriate-ciliate, apex obtuse or two-forked; corolla funnel-campanulate, white or pinkish to rose, with yellow flecks on upper part of inner surface of lobes, ca. 5 cm, tube ca. 15 mm; lobes obovate or ovate, ca. 3 cm; stamens 10, 3.5–4(–4.5) cm, filaments white-pubescent below middle; ovary tapering into style, ca. 8 mm, glabrous; style stout, slightly longer than stamens, glabrous. Capsule cylindric, sometimes with base curved through almost 90 degrees, 90–100 × ca. 5 mm. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Sep–Dec.
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