Young parts with a dense creamy white indumentum of short stellate and dendritic hairs, becoming sparse on adult stems, leaves and corollas. Leaves opposite; lamina narrowly elliptic, 4-6 by 1.5-2.4 cm, attenuate at the base to an obscure winged petiole 3-4 mm long, often infolded along the midrib, obtuse or shortly rounded at the apex; venation obscure except for the midrib and a few major laterals visible on both sides. Inflorescences several at the nodes, arising successively from gall-like swellings, a 2-or 3-flowered subumbellate raceme; axis 1—2(—5) mm long; pedicels 2-4 mm long; bract deltoid, erect, c. 1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 22-30 mm long, slender, narrowly clavate and obtuse at the apex; tube 16-24 mm long, split to the middle or lower. Anther 0.7-1 mm long, recurved, about half as long as the free part of the filament. Fruit 12-15 mm long including a stipe 6-10 mm long, truncate at the apex.
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