Leaves
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Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, (3-)6.5-11.5 cm long, (1.5-)3.5-7 cm wide, secondary nerves 5-8 on each side of midrib, glabrous except lower surface
sparsely appressed pubescent on midrib and secondary nerves, domatia present as depressions in axils of secondary nerves, apex acute to acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, subcordate, or rarely acute, petioles 5-15 mm long, stipules deltate to lanceolate, valvate in bud, 3-5 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, abruptly acuminate, upper surface villous, lower surface appressed sericeous.
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Flowers
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Flowers perfect or functionally unisexual, 4(5)-merous; staminate and perfect flowers 3-7 in cymes, peduncles 6-25 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, calyx limb cupular, broadly lobed, the tubular portion 2-3 mm long, pubescent, the lobes foliaceous, imbricate, often reflexed, often unequal, 2-6 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, obtuse to broadly rounded, pubescent, corolla salverform, the tube 5-11 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, appressed pubescent externally, subglabrous within, the lobes ovate, ca. 3 mm long and wide, obtuse, stamens inserted below corolla throat, anthers sessile, ca. 3.5 mm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, ovary usually abortive, up to 3 mm long, 2-3-celled, style subterete, 3-4.5 mm long, appressed strigillose, stigmas 2-3, equal or unequal, ca. 0.6 mm long; pistillate flowers solitary or rarely 2-3 in cymes, peduncles 8-20(-35) mm long, calyx limb as in staminate flowers, corolla salverform, the tube 5-7 mm long, up to 1.5 mm wide, staminodia subsessile, ca. 1.5 mm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, ovary up to 3.5 mm long, 5-6-celled, style 4-7 mm long, densely pubescent, stigmas 5-6, linear, slightly unequal, 1.3-2.5 mm long, exserted.
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