Trees 6 - 10 (15) m, or shrubs (?) 2 m tall; twigs slightly ridged to smooth, villous- 
tomentose, hairs 0.3 - 0.6 mm long, spreading to erect, more or less straight to wavy, glabrescent 
with age; petioles (8) 9.5 - 16 (21) mm long, (0.7) 1 - 1.2 (1.4) mm wide, villous-tomentose, 
glabrescent with age, hairs as on twigs; leaf blades (4) 8 - 15 (20) cm long, (1.5) 2.5 - 5 (7) cm 
wide, narrow elliptic to elliptic, apex acute, base acute, leaf surface tomentose above when 
young, soon glabrous, villous-tomentose to glabrescent below, pinninerved, subtriplinerved, or 
triplinerved, midvein tomentose above when young, soon glabrous, rather flat, raised below, 
sparsely tomentose to glabrescent, secondary veins 5 - 7 (8) pairs, flat above, glabrous, slightly 
raised below, glabrescent, tertiary veins flat above, glabrous, slightly raised below, glabrous, 
primary domatia absent or present, one to several pairs, secondary domatia absent; inflorescence 
(4) 7.5 - 18 (24) cm long, axillary to leaves or to deciduous foliose bracts, cymose paniculate, 
peduncle (2) 3.5 - 8 (10.5) cm long, sparsely tomentose to glabrescent, rachis sparsely tomentose 
to glabrous, flower pedicel (2) 3 - 6 (9.5) mm long, glabrous; flowers narrowly urceolate, tepals 
2.1 - 2.8 mm long, 1.3 - 2.1 mm wide, ovate or widely ovate, glabrous outside, or inner ones 
sparsely pubescent, or all sparsely pubescent, sericeous inside, rarely some red hairs present, 
stamens of whorls I & II 1.5 - 2 mm long, filaments glabrous ad and abaxially, or sparsely 
sericeous abaxially, anthers 0.8 - 1.1 mm long, glabrous ad and abaxially, sporangia four, 
introrse, stamens of whorl III 1.5 - 2.1 mm long, filaments sericeous adaxially, glabrous 
abaxially or sparsely sericeous, anthers 0.7 - 1 mm long, glabrous ad and abaxially, or sericeous 
on lower half adaxially, sporangia four, upper ones latrorse, lower ones extrorse-latrorse, glands 
0.5 mm long, at filament base, sparsely long sericeous adaxially at point of attachment, glabrous 
elsewhere, staminodes 0.9 - 1.2 mm long, filament long sericeous adaxially and along the 
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