Trees, branchlets stout, with interpetiolar ridges, lepidote at first, glabrate in fruit. Leaves with thick marginate petioles 3-10 mm long; leaf blades glabrous, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, punctate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 10.5-20 cm long and 5-9 cm wide, short acuminate apically, sometimes abruptly so, revolute basally, decurrent, acute, the margin obscurely crenulate, essentially entire, drying brownish on both surfaces, the costa thick, nearly plane above, elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins slender. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal, paniculate, essentially glabrous, 4-15 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, subcorymbose; pedicels erect, 3-4 mm (in the type), to 8 mm long (Allen 4023); sepals broadly ovate, 1.5-2 mm long, rounded apically, punctate with orange glands; petals oblong-elliptic, ca. 7 mm long, connate basally ca. 1.5 mm, asymmetrical apically, inconspicuously punctate with a few orange glands, the medial lineate, the apical rounded; stamens 5 mm long, the filaments thick, ca. 2 mm long, the anthers lanceolate, 3 mm long, acute, dehiscent by small apical pores; ovary subglobose, the ovules many, the placenta pluriseriate, the style 5.5 mm long. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diameter, densely punctate.
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