Shrub c. 1 m tall, branches light brown or reddish-brown. Leaves subcoriaceous, slightly pubescent beneath, glabrous above, elliptic-oblong, ovate-oblong, or lanceolate, 4.5-15 by 1-4.5 cm; base acute to cuneate; apex narrowly acute to acuminate; nerves 7-12 pairs, slightly curving upward, distinctly elevated beneath, slightly elevated above; veins distinct beneath, invisible above; petiole c. 5 mm, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent. Infructescences axillary, terminal, sometimes extra-axillary, umbelliform, short-peduncled, sometimes almost sessile, each with 1 to 4 fruits; pedicel c. 3 mm, puberulous. Persistent flower short-tubular, 5-6 mm long. Floral tube sparsely puberulous on both surfaces. Calyx lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, densely puberulous inside and on the margins and tips outside. Petaloid appendages orbicular or deltoid, c. 1/3-1/2 the length of the stamens, villous, the hairs slightly longer than the appendage. Stamens sessile, c. 1 mm long. Fruits slightly obovoid or globose, 1-1.5 by 1-1.25 cm, yellowish, rugose when dry, constricted at the base into c. 2 mm long stipe. Seeds broadly ovoid, 8-9 by 6.5-7 mm, dark-brown, smooth, shining, with an obscure caruncle-like appendage at the base.
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