Shrubs or trees, 4-6 m tall; branches terete, moderately to densely hirsute. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.3-1.2 cm, moderately to densely hirtellous; blade drying thickly papery, lanceolate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, 7-16 × 3-8.5 cm, adaxially sparsely strigillose or puberulent to glabrescent on lamina and moderately to densely strigillose or hirtellous on principal veins, abaxially sparsely to moderately hirtellous throughout, base rounded to obtuse, apex obtuse, shortly acuminate, or acute; secondary veins 7-11 pairs; stipules generally persistent, pandurate, 5-6 × 4-6 mm, glabrescent, with upper part spreading to reflexed, apex rounded to obtuse. Inflorescences paniculate, branched to 2 or 3 orders, 13-17 × 10-20 cm, densely hirtellous to hirsute, pedunculate; peduncle 1-2 cm; bracts narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 1.5-3 mm. Flowers sessile in glomerules. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion subglobose, ca. 0.8 mm; limb divided nearly to base; lobes lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 1.2-2 mm, sparsely to densely ciliate. Corolla white or greenish yellow, tubular to salverform, glabrous outside; tube 2-3.5 mm, in throat white hirsute; lobes suborbicular, ca. 1 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.7 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.3 mm. Capsules subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May.
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