Trees; branches subterete, yellowish brown velutinous or mealy pubescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.8-1.2 cm, puberulent; blade drying leathery, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 4.5-10.5 × 2.5-4.5 cm, sparsely pubescent to glabrescent on both surfaces with pubescence denser along principal veins, base cuneate to obtuse, apex abruptly shortly acuminate or acute; secondary veins 8-10 pairs; stipules generally persistent, triangular to ovate, ca. 4 mm, puberulent to strigillose, apex cuspidate, erect. Inflorescence paniculate, subglobose, 5-6 × 3-6 cm, densely tomentose or strigillose to glabrescent, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 0.8-1.8 cm; bracts lanceolate to linear, 1-5 mm. Flowers subsessile. Calyx glabrous or sparsely villosulous; hypanthium subglobose, ca. 0.8 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes lanceolate, ca. 0.8 mm. Corolla tubular-salverform, outside glabrous or villosulous on lobes; tube 2-3 mm, white hirsute inside; lobes elliptic, ca. 1 mm. Filaments ca. 0.8 mm; anthers elliptic, ca. 0.8 mm, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.2 mm. Capsules globose, ca. 2 mm in diam., puberulent, villosulous, or subglabrous. Fl. and fr. Sep.
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