persistent, wax often dissapearing with age; petioles (10) 15.5 - 27.5 (35) mm long, (1) 1.5 - 2 
mm wide, densely pubescent and furfuraceous as twigs, turning glabrescent with age; leaf blades 
(5) 10 - 17 (22) cm long, (1.5) 4 - 7 (8.5) cm wide, obovate or elliptic, apex acuminate, base 
acute, pubescent when young above, soon glabrous, dense but inconspicuously pubescent below, 
hairs as on twigs, sometimes waxy spots present early, glabrescent with age in some areas or 
most of surface, triplinerved or less frequently subtriplinerved, midvein sunken and glabrous 
above, strongly raised below, pubescent, hairs appressed, secondary veins 4 -6 pairs, lowest pair 
sunken above, glabrous, strongly raised below, pubescent to glabrescent, other pairs slightly 
sunken above, raised below, glabrescent, tertiary veins mostly perpendicular to secondaries, 
marked to inconspicuous above, slightly raised but inconspicuous below, primary domatia 
present in most of secondaries axiles, secondary domatia usually present in several tertiaries 
axiles; inflorescence (10.5) 14 - 20.5 (24) cm long, axillary to leaves, at base of terminal shoots 
and then axillary to small deciduous bracts, or terminal (?), cymose-paniculate, foliose bracts 
often present, peduncle (0.2) 2 - 7.5 (9.5) cm long, or absent, densely pubescent, rachis densely 
pubescent, glabrescent with age, flower pedicel 3 - 5 (6.5) mm long, glabrescent or glabrous; 
flowers urceolate, yellowish or whitish, tepals 2 - 2.6 mm long, 1.5 - 2.1 mm wide, ovate to 
widely ovate, sparsely pubescent ot glabrous outside, sericeous inside, sometimes outer ones 
sparsely so, few red hairs sometimes present, stamens of whorls I & II 1.5 - 1.9 mm long, 
filaments sparsely sericeous to glabrous abaxially, mainly on lower half and median section, 
sparsely sericeous or glabrous adaxially, anthers 0.8 - 1.1 mm lomg, glabrous ab and adaxially, 
sporangia four, stamens of whorl III 1.5 - 2 mm long, sericeous along lower median section 
abaxially, sparsely sericeo-pilose adaxially, anthers 0.6 - 0.9 mm long, glabrous abaxially, 
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