Shrubs or small trees, to 4 m high, the branchlets thick, at first obscurely and minutely puberulent, essentially glabrous. Leaves petiolate or subsessile, the petioles 3-6 mm long, marginate, canaliculate; leaf blades glabrous, chartaceous, oblong or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 9-16 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, acuminate, the acumen obtusish, acute basally, decurrent, revolute, mar-gin entire, pale and brownish beneath, opaque, the midvein shallowly impressed above, prominent on the undersurface, the primary lateral veins slender, inconspicuous. Inflorescences terminal, bipinnately paniculate, subsessile, con-gested, to 5 cm long, essentially glabrous, with conspicuous cucullate bracts enveloping the mature buds. Flowers 5-merous, glabrous, subspicate, crowded, the pedicels ca. 1 mm long; sepals free, ovate-elliptic, 3 mm long, ciliolate, rounded apically, black-punctate with short oblongish glands; petals connate ca. 1.5 mm basally, narrowly ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, ca. 7 mm long, rounded apically, sparsely black-punctate, glandular basally within; stamens ca. 4.5 mm long, the filaments slender, ca. 2.5 mm long, the anthers lance-olate, ca. 2.4 mm long, widest basally, concolorous, apiculate; ovary ovoid, the-ovules numerous, pluriseriate, the style slender, ca. 5.5 mm long. Fruit subglobose, 7 mm in diameter.
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