Small trees, 3-10 m tall. Leaves clustered and tufted at branch ends; petioles 1.5-12 cm long, with decurrent lamina base; lamina linear-lanceolate, 47-126 by 1.5-8 cm, chartaceous, base long cuneate, margin serrate-crenulate, apex finely acuminate or cuspidate, acumen 15-25 mm long, lower surface glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces, primary veins 70-95 pairs, brochidodromous, clearly merging 1-3 mm from margin, prominulous on both surfaces, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, reticulate. Cataphylls triangular, 9-11 by c. 3 mm. Inflorescences cauliflorous or ramiflorous racemes, more or less erect, 3-14 cm long, with c. 10 flowers; rachis 1.5-2 mm diam., glabrous; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 2.5-10 by 0.5-2 mm; bracteoles triangular, c. 2 by 0.5-1 mm. Calyx closed in bud, rupturing into a persistent ring and a caducous cap, 6-8 by c. 10 mm, or into 2-4 persistent segments of 12-20 by 10-20 mm, green tinged purple. Flowers with pedicels 2-3 cm long; hypanthium subtetragonous or globular, 4-7 by 3-6 mm; petals 4, elliptic, 3-4 by 1.5-2 cm, white; stamens pink or creamy yellow, staminal whorls 5-6, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 2.5-6 mm high outside, 15-18 mm inside, staminodia c. 3 mm; disc a narrow ring, 1.25-2.5 mm high; ovary 4-locular, 2-4 ovules per locule; style 3-4 cm long. Fruits ovoid, c. 6 cm long by 3 cm, exocarp shortly yellow-brown appressed pubescent, not ridged or grooved, endocarp c. 3 mm thick, 1-seeded.
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