Shrub, or tree to 10 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete. Leaves simple, glabrous; petiole 0.5–1.8 cm long; lamina elliptic or narrowly so (in occasional leaves elliptic-obovate), 5–11 cm long, 2–4.5 cm wide, obtuse to obtusely acuminate, with acumen to 1 cm long. Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary, 3–7 cm long; pedicels 4–9.5 mm long (6–10 mm long in fruit), glabrous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 1.5–2.5 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 8.5–14 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures in distal 1/3–3/4. Fruit syncarpous, subglobose, 10–12 mm long, without stylar beak, glabrous; frequent fruiting carpels with ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with outer part of pericarp less than 0.5 mm thick, exocarp fleshy but apparently lacking mesocarp; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 4 mm long.
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