Trees, to 20 m high, the branchlets slender, at first lepidote. Leaves sparsely lepidote at first, glabrate, short-petiolate, the petioles 3-6 mm long, marginate; leaf blades subcoriaceous, opaque, oblong or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-10 cm long and 1.3-3.5 cm wide, subabruptly short acuminate apically, the acumen obtuse, obtusish or acute basally, the margin entire, the midvein nearly plane above, elevated-beneath, the primary lateral veins slender. Inflorescences terminal, many-flowered, pinnately paniculate, sparsely lepidote. Flowers 5-merous, subcorymbose, glabrous, the pedicels 3-4 mm long; flower buds ovoid-ellipsoid, 4 mm long, obtuse; sepals thick, opaque, broadly ovate, ca. 1 mm long, obtuse, glabrous; petals opaque, smooth, sub-coriaceous, short connate basally, oblong-elliptic, ca. 4 mm long (in bud); stamens ca. 4 mm long (in bud), the filaments ca. 1 mm long, the anthers thick, lanceolate, 3 mm long (in bud), attenuate apically, acutish; ovary glabrous, the ovules numerous, pluriseriate, the style ca. 5.5 mm long.
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