Shrub, or tree to 10 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or subtetragonous. Leaves simple; petiole 0.4–1.4 (–1.8) cm long, puberulous or finely pubescent when young, at least adaxially, rarely nearly glabrous; lamina obovate or narrowly so or sometimes elliptic, 2–9.5 cm long, 1–4.8 cm wide, obtuse to obtusely acuminate with acumen to 1 cm long, or occasionally rounded or subacute, glabrous, or rarely very sparsely short-pubescent below. Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary and/or infrafoliar, 0.8–1.2 cm long; pedicels 0.6–2 mm long (length similar in fruit), glabrous to puberulous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals c. 1 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 4–6 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary with a few apical trichomes or glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures at least in distal half. Fruit syncarpous, subglobose, 7–9 mm long, without stylar beak, with a few apical trichomes or glabrous; occasional fruiting carpels with ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with fleshy exocarp and spongy mesocarp; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 4 mm long.
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