Small tree, up to 10 m, 12 cm dbh. Twigs minutely patently hairy. Axillary buds erect, appressed against twig, scales laterally flattened, triangular, 3-4.5 mm long, minutely densely patently hairy. Petiole 9-10 mm, densely minutely hairy. Leaf-blade 11-18 by 3.5-5.5 cm; above rather dull, dark greenish to yellowish brown, midrib ± sunken, nervation rather obscure; beneath nearly concolorous, secondary nerves c. 6-9 pairs, not very distinct, in apical part forming an indistinct intramarginal nerve, venation rather obscure; glands 2 (or 3), situated near base, 0.4-0.7 mm diam. Inflorescences shorter than the leaves; axes dark, very densely more or less patently hairy; lower bracts opposite. Pedicel 2.5-3 mm, ± grooved, very densely shortly patently hairy. Sepals: outer sepals 2.2-2.5 by 3.4-3.6 mm; inner sepals 3.8-3.9 by 3.6-4.9 mm. Petals yellowish white, when dry dark red, the longest one 13-14 mm; carina densely more or less appressedly hairy outside; other petals glabrous. Stamens: filaments widened above base and with a knob-like shortly (half-)appressedly hairy appendage at inner side, further glabrous; anthers 0.7-0.8 mm long, hairy or nearly glabrous at base. Ovary subsessile, half-patently hairy; ovules 4. Fruit unknown.
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