Tree or shrub to 4.5 m tall, to 10 cm dbh. Bark yellowish. Branches lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, subsessile; blade subcoriaceous, elliptic to oblong, 3-20 by 1-7 cm, 1.7-4.6 times as long as wide, apex short acuminate, base subcordate, glabrous above and beneath, often punctate beneath, 5-12 pairs of secondary veins, ascending. Inflorescence axillary, dense, 2-4 cm long; peduncle 1-1.1 cm long; pedicels 4-7 mm long, glabrous. Sepals 1.2-1.5 by 0.8-1 mm, c. 1.5 times as long as wide, apex rounded to obtuse, glabrous, not ciliate. Corolla with white lobes and a yellowish tube, in mature bud 10-15 mm long with wide, subglobose head which is 0.2-0.3 of bud length, apex obtuse to rounded; tube 10-14.5 mm long, 8-12 times as long as calyx, 1.3-2 times as long as lobes; lobes 7-9 by 2-3.5 mm, 2.6-3.5 times as long as wide, apex obtuse; glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted slightly above the middle of the corolla tube; anthers 1.8-2 by 0.5-0.7 mm. Ovaries glabrous, 1 mm long; style 8-9.5 mm long; style head c. 1 mm long. Fruit obliquely ellipsoid, possibly orange, 2-3 by 1-1.5 cm, with 4 ridges on each mericarp, 5-10-seeded.
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