Trees to 20 m tall, slash red; twigs canescent with mostly ascending, mostly appressed, long, stout, uniseriate hairs. Leaves 4-12 cm long, 25 cm wide, el-liptical or obovate, apically acuminate with a short drip tip, basally obtuse, the margins entire or crenulate, chartaceous, glabrous and drying dark above, lighter beneath and softly pubescent with long, dispersed, mostly straight, appressed hairs; petiole ca. 10 mm long, canaliculate above. Inflorescences short, axillary racemes or panicles; peduncle short, to ca. 8 mm long, stout, densely reddish or yellowish tomentose; bracts caducous; pedicels short or wanting. Flowers white; calyx densely canescent outside, the sepals obtuse or rounded, ca. 2 mm wide, 21/2 mm long, glabrous near the margin but ciliate at the margin; corolla 7-8 mm long, the petals free except almost at the base, pubescent outside, sometimes only near the tips; stamens numerous; style long-pilose near the base, the ovary densely pilose. Fruits ellipsoid, 20 mm long, 10-12 mm across, the apical, superior portion of the ovary 5-6 mm across, 3-locular.
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