Shrub; branchlets rather slender, terete, the tips densely minutely pubescent, soon glabrescent and grey lower down. Leaves oblong, c. 1 cm obtusely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base into a very short (+-2 mm) petiole, thinly chartaceous when mature, brownish to dark olivaceous when dry, laxly and ± well visibly pellucid-lineate (not pellucid-punctate), entire to remotely denticulate by minute glands, glabrous, 7-9(-11) by 2-4 cm; midrib somewhat prominent beneath, nerves 6-7 pairs, flat above or slightly impressed, raised beneath, veins transverse, nearly obscure above, little prominent underneath. Stipules triangular, minute, 1-1.5 mm long, sometimes longer persistent, but mostly rather early caducous. Flowers single on top of a solitary, short (c. 3 mm), many-bracteate axis. Bracts membranous, ovate, subacute, pubescent, 1.5 mm. Calyx tubular, in all 5 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., rather densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 5-lobed in the upper half; lobes oblong. Stamens 10; filaments thick-filiform, subulate towards their apex, glabrous, alternately 1.2 and 0.9 mm. Staminodes reduced to some hairs. Ovary elongate, c. 5 mm long, rather densely hairy. Fruit (ex coll.) 'elongate-elliptic, 4 by 1 cm, seeds several, with bloodred aril.'
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