Tree, 4-10 m high; branchlets glabrous to grey-pubescent. Leaf-blade broadly elliptic, 6-8 cm long, 4—5 cm wide, apex abruptly acuminate, acute, obtuse or rounded, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin coarsely crenate-serrate; midrib and lateral nerves more prominent below, lateral nerves 6-8, Vi-angled, looping near margin, glabrous except for few hairs on midrib, sometimes with hairy tufts or pockets in axils of nerves, coriaceous; petiole 0,8-1,5 cm long, glabrous or pubescent. FlowÂers in lax, terminal panicles up to 17 cm long, flowers solitary or 2 together, sessile or subses-sile on puberulous branches of panicle. Sepals 5-7, subulate-triangular, 2,5-3 mm long, 1,75-2 mm wide, pubescent dorsally, glabrous ventrally, margins ciliate. Petals 5-7, elliptic-ovate, 3,3 mm long, 2-2,25 mm wide, pubesÂcent dorsally, glabrous ventrally, margins ciliate. Stamens in 3's opposite petals, 4 mm long, glabrous or with long hairs in lower half; anthers 0,5 mm long. Disc glands discoid, 1 mm diam., sessile, tomentulose. Ovary conical, pilose outside and inside; style 2-3 mm long with diverging branches 0,3 mm long. Fruit capsular, woody, surrounded by persistent calyx and petals. Seeds usually solitary, narÂrowly ovoid, 1 mm long; testa thin, brown.
