Main features of the subsection :
Large shrubs to large trees, to 30m. Leaves large, oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, lower surface covered with a one-to two-layered usually compacted indumentum, the upper layer, when present, composed of rosulate or dendroid hairs . Inflorescence dense, 12-30-flowered. Calyx minute. Corolla 6-10-lobed, white or yellow to rosy-purple, tubular- or funnel- to ventricose-campanulate, nectar pouches usually absent. Stamens 12-18. Ovary tomentose , glandular or glabrous ; style glabrous.
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