Shrub or tree up to 17 m by 50 cm. Young branchlets light-brown, pubescent and glabrescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, glabrous or scattered hairy rarely pubescent beneath, oblong, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate-oblong, 10-20 by 3-5.5 cm; base obtuse to cuneate; apex shortly acuminate; nerves and veins usually homogeneous, slightly elevated beneath, obscure above; petiole 3-5 mm. Inflorescences axillary and extra-axillary, umbelliform or condensed paniculiform, rarely cauliflorous, very short-peduncled, (1-)3—7 (-∞)-flowered; pedicels 2-5 mm, pubescent. Flowers yellowish-green or white, infundibular, 5-6.5 mm long. Floral tube sparsely pubescent outside, glabrescent. Calyx lobes oblong to slightly ovate, c. 2 mm long, densely puberulous on the upper part and the margins outside, and the whole surface inside. Petaloid appendages oblong or deltoid, c. 1 mm long, densely villous. Stamens c. 1 mm long, the episepalous ones with short, fleshy filaments, the others sessile or subsessile. Ovary obovoid, c. 3.25 mm long, densely villous; style very short or obscure; stigma capitate. Fruits ellipsoid to obovoid or subglobose, slightly compressed, rugose, 1.25-1.5 by 1.25 cm, sparsely hairy, glabrescent, narrowed to the base, sometimes on a very short stipe, yellow. Seeds deltoid, including the appendage c. 0.75 by 0.75 cm, plano-convex, black, with a very short caruncle-like appendage.
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