Small trees or shrubs, 3-16 m tall, without adventitious roots. Leaves: petioles 2.5-5 mm long; lamina obovate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, 9-44 by 2.5-8.5 cm, papyraceous, base tapering to round or auriculate, margin finely serrate-crenulate at least when young, apex acute to acuminate, acumen 5-20 mm, lower surface glabrous; midrib prominulous on both surfaces; primary veins 16-25 pairs, brochidodromous, merging through network of intercostal veins 2-3 mm from margin, prominulous on both surfaces, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, finely reticulate. Cataphylls many at inflorescence base. Inflorescences terminal racemes, pendulous, 20-85 cm long, with up to 65 flowers; rachis 1-3 mm diam., minutely ferrugineous-pubescent; bracts lanceolate, 4-9 by 1-3.5 mm, acute; bracteoles triangular, 0.5-1 mm. Calyx open in bud, minutely ferrugineous-pubescent just as hypanthium. Flowers with pedicels 0.5-3.5 cm long; petals pink to red, stamens crimson to dark red, staminal whorls 4, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 1-2 mm high, staminodia c. 5 mm; disc annular, 0.5-1 mm high; ovary 4-locular, subglobular, 3-5 ovules per locule. Fruits fusiform (to ovoid), tetragonous, truncate at apex, not winged, 3-9 by 0.75-2 by 0.75-2 cm. Seeds ovoid, 2.5-3.5 by 1-2 cm.
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A small tree. It grows 5-7 m tall. The stem is 8-13 cm across. The leaves are thin and oblong. They do not have a leaf stalk. The flowers are a deep red. The fruit are a rich red colour. They are 6 cm long by 4 cm wide.
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