Shrubs or trees, 2-8 m tall; branches flattened to terete, densely puberulent to glabrescent, reddish brown to gray. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.7-2.5 cm, thinly puberulent or glabrous; blade drying papery, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 6-14 × 2-6.5 cm, both surfaces glabrescent or sparsely to densely puberulent or strigillose at least on principal veins, base acute to obtuse, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 5-10 pairs; stipules generally persistent, broadly triangular, 2-3.5 mm, densely strigillose to puberulent, apex erect, acute, cuspidate, or sometimes narrowly spatulate. Inflorescences paniculate, pyramidal in outline, 12-20 × 10-20 cm, branched to 2 or 3 orders, densely puberulent to strigillose, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 2-4 cm; bracts linear, spatulate, or narrowly elliptic, 1-6 mm; pedicels 0.5-4 mm. Flowers subsessile to pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion subglobose, ca. 0.8 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes triangular, 0.3-0.5 mm, sometimes ciliolate. Corolla white to yellow, funnelform, glabrous outside; tube 1.5-4 mm, villosulous in throat; lobes spatulate, 1.5-2.5 mm. Filaments ca. 0.8 mm; anthers linear-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.8 mm. Capsules globose, 1.8-2 × 2-2.2 mm, glabrous. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. May-Dec.
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