Shrubs or small trees, 2-10 m tall. Leaves: petiole 2.5-6 cm long, slightly winged by decurrent leaf base, slightly swollen at base; lamina elliptic, 11-22 by 3-8 cm, coriaceous, base cuneate, margin slightly serrate-crenulate, revolute, apex acuminate, acumen 5-14 mm long, lower surface glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces, primary veins 9-18 pairs, brochidodromous, arching and scarcely joining at margin, prominulous on both surfaces, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, conspicuously reticulate. Cataphylls triangular, 3-6 by 1-2.5 mm. Inflorescences terminal spikes, pendulous, 30-65 cm long, up to 30-flowered; rachis c. 2 mm diam., accrescent to 6 mm, glabrous; bracts lanceolate, 3-6(-15) by 1-1.5 mm; bracteoles triangular, c. 1 by 0.5 mm. Calyx open in bud. Flowers sessile; hypanthium funnel-shaped, tetragonous with acute winged edges, 4-6 by 4-5 mm, glabrous; petals white to reddish white or pink; stamens white, staminal whorls 4-5, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 2-3 mm high, staminodia c. 7 mm; disc annular, 0.5 mm high; ovary 4-locular, tetragonous with acute winged edges, glabrous, 2-4 ovules per locule; style 4-6 cm long. Fruits ovoid or almost fusiform, truncate at apex, 6-10.5 by 2.5-7 by 2.5-6 cm, 4-angled, slightly winged when young, tapering towards base, smooth, shiny, sides flat or depressed. Seeds single, ovoid, trigonous, c. 2 cm long, deeply fissured.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m tall. The trunk is 20 cm across. The bark is reddish-brown. It is deeply cracked. The branches can be drooping. The twigs are slender. The leaves are crowded at the ends of the twigs. They are simple and alternate. The veins in the leaf are like a net. The leaves are narrowly oval and 14-18 cm long by 5-7 cm wide. The flowers hang down at the ends of the branches. The flowering shoots are 30-65 cm long. The flowers are about 4 cm across. The are pink to red. The fruit are 4 cm long. They are reddish-green and angular. They are fleshy.
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