Shrub or small tree, 1.5-3.6 m high, the branchlets puberulous and hirsute. Leaves opposite, the petiole up to 8 mm long, puberulous and hirsute, the stipules triangular, acuminate, up to 6 mm long; blade obovate to elliptic, oblique and rounded to slightly cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, crenate or crenu-late-serrulate to subentire at the margins, up; to 16 cm long and 6.5 cm wide, chartaceous, hirsute especially along the prominent midvein below. Racemes terminal, up to 4 cm long, many-flowered, the rhachis densely rufous-hirsute, the hairs ? appressed. Flowers with the pedicels 2 mm long or less, rufous-hirtellous, the bracteoles exceeding the pedicels, broadly ovate to depressed ovate, acuminate-cuspidate, 2-3 mm long and 2-2.7 mm wide, dry, indurated, minutely ciliolate, appressed-hirtellous; sepals slightly unequal, ovate to broadly ovate, acuminate, cucullate, 3-4.5 mm long and 1.7-3 mm wide, dry, indurated, scarious and minutely ciliolate along the margins, appressed-hirtellous; petals elliptic to subobovate, acute and reflexed, 5 mm long and 1.8-2 mm wide, yellowish-white, appressed-hirtellous along the midline; stamens 3.5-4 mm long, the filaments free, ca 0.8-1 mm long, without dorsal appendages; anthers ca 1.5 mm long, unappendaged (sometimes 1-mucronate at the apex?), dorsally sparsely appressed-hirtellous, the connectives dilated from the base into oblong-ovate scales, these brownish, nar-rowed to an obtuse or-acute apex, entire or obscurely erosulose below, exceeding the anthers by 1.2-1.5 mm; ovary ovoid, appressed-rufous-hirtellous, the placentae 3-ovulate; style ca 2.6-2.8 mm long, appressed-rufous-hirtellous on the lower half. Capsule ovoid, 3-lobate, narrowed at the base, apiculate at the apex, up to 2.5 cm long, the valves cymbiform, the pericarp reticulate, puberulous; seeds ca 4.5 mm long, densely puberulous.
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