Evergreen shrub or tree 0.9– 20 m, much branched; bole occasionally large, up to 60 cm across; bark grey to brown, corky, fissured; branchlets glabrous to pubescent with simple hairs, sometimes mixed with glandular hairs, young shoots reddish.. Leaves entire, rather leathery, dark green above, whitish to blue-grey and matte beneath, lanceolate, elliptic or oblong, rarely broadly elliptic or ovate, 2– 10(– 16) cm long, 0.5– 4(– 7.5) cm wide, base cuneate to subcordate, margins entire, apex rounded to mucronate or acuminate, glabrous except for the midrib underneath; petiole 0.5– 1 cm, glabrous or pubescent.. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal racemes 5– 15 cm long with 15– 35 flowers; pedicel 2– 6 mm long, pubescent, rarely glabrous; bracteoles 1– 1.5 mm long, pubescent.. Calyx green to reddish, fused in the lower 1/3; lobes triangular, 2.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent with ciliate margins.. Corolla pale green or greenish yellow or yellow to creamy white, less often reddish or white with red streaks or yellow tinged with red at base, obconical to slightly urceolate, 7– 10 mm long, 4– 5 mm in diameter, with 5 triangular lobes 0.7– 0.8 mm long, glabrous.. Stamens 9– 10, orange, the filaments pubescent and geniculate.. Ovary globose, ± 2 mm in diameter, sparsely pubescent; style 1, glabrous, 6– 8 mm long; stigma small, capitate.. Capsule dark green turning reddish, 4– 7 mm in diameter, with persistent style.. Fig. 1.
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