Habit: shrub, tree

Plant Height (m): 2-5 m

Elevation (m): 600-800 m

Distribution: China: Guangxi

Young Branch: pubescent

Leaf upper surface: glabrous

Leaf texture: leathery

Leaf lower surface: glabrous, pubescent, midrib hairy

Leaf length (cm): 8-15 cm

Leaf width (cm): 3.5-6 cm

Leaf shape: oblong-elliptic, elliptic

Leaf margin: serrulate

Leaf apex: obtusely pointed, caudate

Leaf base: broadly-cuneate, rounded

Lateral vein: pairs: 7

Petiole length (mm): 5-7 mm

Petiole: pubescent

Flower: solitary

Flower position: axillary, subterminal

Pedicel: absent

Bractlet number: 8-10

Bractlet: deciduous after anthesis

Bractlet shape: semiorbicular, suborbicular

Branchlet length (mm): 4-12 mm

Bractlet width (mm): 4-15 mm

Bractlet hairiness: glabrous inside, pubescent outside

Sepal: deciduous after anthesis

Sepal number: 8-10

Sepal shape: suborbicular, semiorbicular

Sepal length (mm): 4-12 mm

Sepal width (mm): 4-15 mm

Sepal hairiness: glabrous inside, pubescent outside

Petal number: 5-7

Petal color: yellowish

Petal apex: round

Petal length (mm): 20-25 mm

Petal width (mm): 8-12 mm

Petal: basally slightly connate

Stamen length (mm): 12-15 mm

Filaments hairiness: glabrous

Filaments: the base of outer filaments connate, not forming a tube

Ovary: pubescent

Ovary shape: orbicular

Ovary locus: 5-locular

Relative length of stamens and styles: stamens longer than styles

Style number: 5

Style length (mm): 12 mm

Style hairiness: pubescent

Style: free

Fruit shape: suborbicular

Pericarp: squarrose

Seed color: brown

Seed hairiness: glabrous