Small trees, to 3 m tall; branches glabrous. Petiole 12-17 mm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery and olive-brown, elliptic, 15-18 × 5-9 cm, glabrous, base obtuse, apex cuspidate or shortly acuminate; secondary veins 12 or 13 pairs; stipules persistent, broadly triangular, 12-14 mm, glabrous, long acuminate to aristate. Inflorescence cymose, ca. 7 × 5.5 cm, many flowered; peduncle ca. 3 cm, sometimes subtended by or bearing reduced leaves or leaflike bracts; bracts linear, 3-4 mm; pedicels ca. 1 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium cupuliform, ca. 2 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla outside glabrous; tube ca. 13 mm; lobes narrowly ligulate to narrowly elliptic, ca. 5 × 3 mm, obtuse. Fruit unknown. Fl. Apr.
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