Small tree or shrub up to 2 m. Branchlets glabrous, yellowish brown to brownish when dry, the tips usually pubescent. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, shining on both surfaces, oblong, elliptic-oblong, or lanceolate, 8-16 by 2-4.5 cm; base acute or obtuse; apex acuminate; nerves and veins numerous, homogeneous, slightly elevated beneath, obscure or invisible above; petiole c. 5 mm. Flowers greenish, small, axillary, 1 to several in a fascicle on a very short peduncle; pedicels 1-3 mm, pubescent. Floral tube cam-panulate, 3-4 mm long, pubescent or puberulous on both surfaces, usually glabrescent outside. Calyx lobes 5, slightly oblong or ovate-oblong, as long as the tube or sometimes slightly longer. Petaloid appendages linear or oblong, c. 1 mm long, densely pubescent. Stamens 1-1.25 mm long, filamentous, the episepalous ones slightly longer than the others. Ovary ovoid, c. 1.5 mm long, slightly pubescent; style distinct, filiform, c. 1 mm; stigma capitate. Fruits narrowly obovoid, compressed, 1.25-1.5 by 0.75-1 cm. Seed including the caruncle-like appendage c. 1 cm long, pubescent, persistent floral tube splitting on one side.
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