 Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, narrow lance-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long.The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of nine, eleven or thirteen on a flattened, unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds sesile or on pedicels up to long.Mature buds are oval to spindle-shaped, and wide with a conical or rounded operculum about the same length as the floral cup.