Shrubs or trees, 4-20 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets purplish brown, glabrous; terminal buds apically appressed pubescent. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, 7-13 × 2.5-4 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green and shiny, both surfaces glabrous or abaxially sparsely appressed pubescent when young, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially level, secondary veins 12-16 on each side of midvein and visible on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicel 1-2 cm, glabrous; bracteoles persistent, ovate to oblong, 6-10 × 3-5 mm, glabrous, apex acute to obtuse. Sepals ovate, ca. 1.5 × 0.7-0.9 cm, glabrous, apex acute and mucronate. Petals white, oblong-ovate, 1.7-1.9 × 0.9-1.2 cm, glabrous, apex obtuse to rounded. Stamens 25-30, 6-11 mm; filaments 2-5 mm, basally connate and adnate to petals; anthers linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm, with filiform trichomes, connective exserted. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 3-loculed with many ovules per locule; style ca. 1 cm, glabrous, apically 3-lobed. Fruit orange to yellow when mature, globose to ovoid, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., many seeded. Seeds brown, shiny. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 4-20 m tall. The leaves are oblong and and 7-13 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. They are thickly leathery. They are pale green underneath. The flowers occur singly in the axils of leaves. The petals are white. The fruit are yellow to orange when mature. They are round and 1.5 cm across. There are many seeds.
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