Shrubs or trees, 1-6 m tall; branches flattened, shortly pilosulous, becoming brown or grayish brown with age. Petiole 5-15 mm, pilosulous; leaf blade drying papery and blackish brown, oblong-obovate or lanceolate, 5-26 × 1.5-7 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially scabrous and sparsely puberulent to subglabrous with pubescence denser along principal veins, base cuneate, apex acuminate or shortly acuminate; secondary veins 4-7 pairs; stipules triangular, 4-5 mm, acuminate or apiculate. Inflorescence corymbose, 4-7 × ca. 6 cm, many flowered, gray strigillose, pedunculate; pedicels 4-7 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx pilosulous; hypanthium portion cylindrical-urceolate, ca. 1.5 mm; limb ca. 1.5 mm, lobed for up to 1/3. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube 8-9 mm, pilosulous inside; lobes narrowly oblong, ca. 10 mm. Ovary with 2 ovules per cell. Berry subglobose, 5-7 mm in diam., glabrous; seeds 4. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Jan.
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