Shrubs or trees, 3-15 m tall. Petiole 1-3 cm, sparsely strigillose; leaf blade drying papery, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, 7.5-23 × 4-8 cm, adaxially glabrous or sometimes sparsely hispidulous along midrib, abaxially glabrous or sparsely hispidulous along principal veins, base cuneate or attenuate, apex acute or shortly caudate; secondary veins 7-13 pairs; stipules ca. 2 × as wide as branchlets, apex reflexed, subrounded. Inflorescences laxly paniculate, to 30 × 24 cm, ferruginous strigillose. Flowers sessile. Calyx pilosulous to strigillose; hypanthium portion subglobose, 1-1.5 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes triangular. Corolla white, funnelform, glabrous outside; tube 4-5 mm, white hirsute inside upper part; lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 1 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsules subglobose, 1.5-2 mm in diam., pubescent or subglabrous. Fl. Apr-Oct, fr. Jun-Nov.
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