Tree, 4-22 mm tall, the trunk to 40 cm d.b.h; outer bark thin, light brown with many minute fissures; inner bark brownish-red, moderately thick; young parts ferruginous, appressed-pubescent. Leaves opposite, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, acute and decurrent at the base, 5-14 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, glabrate or sparsely pubescent below and on midrib above in age; petioles 5-10 mm long; stipules narrowly triangular, ca. 3 mm long. Pseudoracemes terminal, 6-10 cm long, shorter than the leaves; rachis angular, ferruginous appressed-pubescent; bracts ovate-lanceolate or linear, 1.5-3.0 mm long, ferruginous-pubescent out-side; bracteoles lanceolate, 1.0-1.5 mm long; peduncles and pedicels densely ferruginous-tomentose. Flowers many, ca. 1.5 mm in diameter, yellow; sepals 1.5-2.0 mm long, usually each with 2 glands, the glands oblong-obovate, yellow; petals subequal, suborbicular, concave,-clawed, 4-6 mm in diam., subentire, 1 petal flat, somewhat thicker and more erect than the others; stamens 10, in 2 series, nearly erect, 3.0-3.5 mm long, the filaments pubescent from the base, nearly as long as the anthers, the anthers ca. 2.5 mm long, introrse, the connective swollen slightly surpassing the apex; styles 3, narrowly pointed, distinct, slightly longer than the stamens, persisting in fruit. Drupes more or less globose, ca. 10 mm in diam., glabrous, green to yellow or~yellow-orange at maturity; seeds 3. This species flowers from June to August. Fruits mature from August to Oc-tober.
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