Shrubs or small trees, the branchlets thick, ridged between petioles, glabrous, the leaf buds sparsely and minutely lepidote, the plants entirely glabrous otherwise. Leaves sessile or subsessile, the petiole marginate and thick; leaf blades entire, coriaceous to rigidly coriaceous, oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, 7.5-13 cm long and 3.5-5 cm wide, subabruptly short acuminate apically, the acumen acutish, acutish basally, decurrent, the costa prominent, nearly plane above, conspicuous beneath, the primary lateral veins slender but evident on both surfaces. Inflorescences glabrous, terminal, pyramidal, paniculate, 5-12 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, glabrous, corymbose; pedicels stout, 5-9 mm long; sepals ovate-oblong, 2-2.5 mm long, thick, conspicuously orange-punctate; corolla drying rugose, orange-punctate, 7 mm long, the petals oblong-elliptic, obtuse, connate ca. 2 mm basally; stamens ca. 7.5 mm long, the filaments slender, ca. 4 mm long, the anthers epunctate, thick, lanceolate, 3.2-3.5 mm long, acutish apically, dehiscent by apical pores; ovary ovoid, the ovules 22, pluriseriate, the style slender, ca. 7.5 mm long. Fruit globose, punctate, drying ca. 7 mm in diameter.
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