Shrub to tree, 3.5-23 m, 60 cm dbh. Twigs densely patently brownish hairy, glabrescent. Axillary buds narrowly triangular, 1.5-3.5 mm long, hairy. Petiole 1.5-2.5(-3) cm, very densely patently hairy. Leaf-blade (5-)9-l 1 by (1-)1.5-3(-4) cm, base cuneate to rounded or slightly cordate, apex usually acutish; above dark green, shiny, beneath glaucous-papillose, hairy mainly on midrib, secondary nerves c. 7 or 8 pairs, forming an indistinct intramarginal nerve or not; glands very numerous, scattered, c. 0.1 mm diam. Inflorescences unbranched, as long as the leaves; axes densely minutely patently hairy, some hairs up to 0.5 mm. Pedicel (9—)10—15 mm, minutely patently hairy. Sepals very sparsely minutely hairy outside, glabrous inside except at very base; outer sepals c. 2-2.5 by 2 mm; inner sepals c. 3-3.5 by 2-2.4 mm. Petals pinkish, when dry orange-red, glabrous except for ciliate base, the longest one 12.5 mm. Stamens: anthers 1.5—1.6 mm long, sparsely minutely hairy at base. Ovary nearly sessile, half-patently brownish pubescent; style glabrous in apical part; ovules 9-11. Fruit globular, c. 2.2 cm diam., light brownish, hairy; pericarp thin.
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