Shrub or small tree up to 3 m. Branchlets reddish brown, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves papery, glabrous above, sparsely or scattered pubescent beneath, elliptic-lanceolate, 8-14 by 2.5-4 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex acuminate, the acumen up to 2 cm, tip obtuse; nerves 8-16 pairs, curved and ascending to the margin, prominent beneath, visible above; veins distinct, sometimes visible beneath, obscure above; petiole 3-5 mm. Inflorescences axillary, sessile or short-peduncled, usually with a few small bracts, 3-6-flowered; pedicels 6-7 mm, puberulous. Flowers 5-6 mm long. Floral tube short-tubular, 4-5 mm long, puberulous outside and inside, glabrescent. Calyx lobes ovate to oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, densely puberulous on both surfaces. Petaloid appendages semi-orbicular to ovate, 1/3-1/2 the length of the stamens, hairy. Stamens c. 1 mm long, sessile or the episepalous ones on short filaments. Ovary slightly obovate, 3 mm long, densely pubescent, slightly attenuate towards the base, acute and narrowed towards the apex; style very short; stigma capitate. Fruits yellowish orange, ellipsoid, slightly compressed, developing on top of a slender 0.5-1 cm long stipe, protruding from the floral tube, 1 2/3 by 1 cm; persistent floral tube entire or sometimes splitting at one side. Seeds ovoid, 8-9 by 6 mm, dark-brown, with a caruncle-like appendage c. 2 mm long.
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