Shrubs or trees; branches densely villous becoming glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 8-10 mm, villous becoming glabrescent; blade drying leathery, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 4.5-13 × 2.5-6 cm, adaxially sparsely strigose or glabrous, abaxially densely yellowish brown villous, base cuneate, apex broad then shortly acuminate; secondary veins 7-9 pairs; stipules generally persistent, triangular to ovate, ca. 6 mm, villous, apex erect, cuspidate. Inflorescence paniculate, pyramidal in outline, 9-12 × 6-11 cm, branched to 2 or 3 orders, densely yellowish brown villosulous to-hirtellous, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle ca. 3 cm; bracts lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx densely hirtellous or villosulous; hypanthium portion ellipsoid, ca. 0.8 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes lanceolate, 0.8-1 mm, ciliate. Corolla tubular-salverform; tube 3-4 mm, outside and inside glabrous; lobes elliptic to ovate, ca. 1 mm, densely villosulous or hirtellous outside. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.7 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.2 mm. Capsules not seen. Fl. Apr.
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