Shrub or tree, 1.5-8.0(-12.0) m tall, slender; bark rufous, flaking; sap orange; branches densely to sparsely ferruginous-to grayish-tomentose, pubescent with mostly appressed stellate hairs, glabrescent. Leaves petiolate; petiole 7-15 m long, ferrugineous-to grayish-tomentose or-pubescent, glabrescent; lamina (6.0-) 7.0-19.0 cm long, 1.5-9.6(-11.4) cm wide, broadly ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, the apex long-acuminate, to 30 mm long, the base rounded to narrowly cuneate, sometimes slightly asymmetric, thinly chartaceous, dull or sublucent above, bronze or orange brown to greenish beneath, the main lateral veins 7-12, orange to reddish, uniting in submarginal loops, sometimes with 1-3(-4) short intermediate lateral veins, with obscure reticulate venation slightly prominent on both sides, the glandular dots dense, sometimes obscure, the ferrugineous to whitish stellate hairs dense to sparse, closely appressed, often obscuring the smooth epidermis. Inflorescences terminal and sometimes axillary, 4-many-flowered, broadly pyra-midal to subcylindric, 3-5-noded, the basal 1-2 nodes with deciduous bract pairs, the leaves at the node below scarcely reduced, sometimes bearing axillary accessory branches; rachis and pedicels ferrugineous to fawn appressed-tomen-tose, glabrescent; buds globose. Flowers heterostylous; sepals 5-7 mm long, united at the base, the outermost 2.0-3.5 mm wide, narrowly oblong to obovate-oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, exposed surfaces densely fawn-to ferrugineous-tomentose with appressed stellate hairs, the inner margins entire, sometimes ciliate, with few to numerous glandular dots, strongly reflexed in fruit; petals white or pale green to pale yellow, 7-10 mm long, 2.5-4.0 mm wide, 1.5-2.0 times as long as the sepals, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, obtuse or rarely acute to rounded, distally reddish-or orange-glandular-punctate with large glands, in-ternally whitish-villous; stamen fascicles united basally with the petals, deciduous, 14-20 stamens, whitish-villous, as long as the sepals (dolichostyly) or ca. 2 mm shorter than the petals (brachystyly); staminodial fascicles deciduous, ca. 1.5 mm long, oblong, distally pilose; ovary 2.0-2.5 mm long, globose, glandular-punctate, glabrous, the styles equaling the sepals (brachystyly) or ca. 2 mm short of the petal apex (dolichostyly), the stigmas broadly capitate to narrowly peltate. Fruits reddish purple with orange glandular dots, 8-13 mm long, 7-12 mm wide, globose to cylindric-globose, glabrous; seeds dark red brown, 3-4 mm long.
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