 Adult leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long.The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between seven and fifteen on a thick, unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on pedicels up to long.Mature buds are spindle-shaped, long and wide with a blunt, conical operculum.