w LL!, MO!, NY!). 
Trees 3 - 10 (16) m, or shrubs 2 - 4.5 m tall; twigs more or less flat to quadrangular when 
young, ridged, ridges low but conspicuous, soon terete, pubescent or glabrescent, hairs 0.15 - 
0.25 mm long, straight and appressed; petiole (4) 6.5 - 13.5 (19) mm long, (0.6) 0.9 - 1.4 mm 
wide, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent, hairs as on twigs; leaf blade (4) 7 - 11.5 (14) cm long, 
(1.5) 2.5 - 4.5 (5.5) cm wide, elliptic to ovate, less frequent lanceolate, apex acute to long 
acuminate, base rounded, obtuse, or acute, sparsely pubescent above when young but soon 
glabrous, sparsely and inconspicuously pubescent or glabrous below, hairs in both cases as on 
twigs, triplinerved, subtriplinerved or rarely penninerved, midvein flat to slightly sunken above, 
pubescent first, soon glabrescent, raised below, pubescent or glabrous, secondary veins (4) 5 -7 
q) pairs, flat above, glabrous, slightly raised below, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, tertiary veins 
flat above, slightly raised below, glabrous, minor reticulation slightly raised, primary domatia 
usually present, at least one of the basal ones, but often several leaves without them, secondary 
domatia absent; inflorescence (2) 4 - 9 (12) cm long, axillary to leaves, cymose-paniculate, 
sometimes with foliose bracts at main branchings, peduncle (1) 2.5 - 5.5 (7.5) cm long, sparsely 
pubescent, rachis sparsely pubescent or glabrous, hairs appressed, flower pedicel (3) 4 - 6.5 (8) 
cm long, glabrescent or glabrous; flower narrow campanulate or urceolate, pale greenish white, 
greenish yellow, or yellowish white, tepals 2.2 - 2.7 mm long, 1.6 - 2.2 mm wide, ovate to 
widely ovate, glabrous outside, or inner tepals sparsely pubescent, sericeous inside, red hairs 
present, stamens of whorls I & II 1.7 - 2 mm long, filament sericeous or glabrous ad and 
abaxially, anthers 0.9 - 1.1 mm long, glabrous adaxially, sparsely sericeous on connective base or 
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