Shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall; young branches rufous puberulent. Stipules narrowly triangular, 4-5 × ca. 1 mm; petiole 4-6 mm, puberulent; leaf blade elliptic or rarely obovate, 4-9(-15) × 2-4.5(-6) cm, papery, abaxially puberulent to pubescent, adaxially glabrous, base obtuse to acute, apex acute to obtuse; lateral veins 9-11(-15) pairs. Flowers axillary, up to 10-fascicled, (sub)sessile. Calyx conspicuously reddish; bracts small, triangular. Male flowers 4-6 mm in diam.; sepals triangular, 1.5-3 × 1-1.5 mm, pilose; petals irregularly rounded, base spatulate, apex lobulate, ca. 1 mm in diam.; staminal column ca. 1 mm; anthers ellipsoid, ca. 0.6 × 0.3 mm; rudimentary ovary cylindric; disk cup-shaped, ca. 3 mm in diam. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; disk urceolate, enclosing ovary for ca. 1 mm; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.3 × 1 mm, 2-celled, tapering into 2 styles. Drupes depressed globose, apically bilobed, 5-7 mm tall, 2-celled.
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