Shrub or small tree 1.5-12 m tall, the trunk to 12 cm in diam, unarmed, the branchlets minutely pubescent. Leaves short-petiolate, the petiole up to 1 cm long, canaliculate above, minutely pubescent; blade narrowly oblong or narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse to acute at the base, long-acuminate at the apex, to 17 cm long and 6 cm wide, charta-eous to rigid-chartaceous, pellucid-punctate or not, slightly dis-color, the margins sharply serrate, more or less shining and minutely pubescent to glabrous above, somewhat paler, dull and minutely pubescent below, the costa and lateral veins prominent beneath. Inflorescences sessile, fasciculate, the fascicles dense, the bracts numerous and forming a cushion in the leaf axils. Flowers greenish-white or white, the pedicels up to 8 mm long, usually shorter and to 4-5 mm long, articulated close to the base, minutely pubescent; calyx 5-7 mm long, the lobes rarely 6, narrowly ovate-oblong, united at the base into a tube 1-1.5 mm long, acute to obtuse at the apex, 3-nerved, minutely puberulous without, minutely puberulous to nearly glabrous within; stamens (9)10(11), the filaments filiform, slightly unequal, 1.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous, united at the base among. themselves and with the staminodes into a very short tube less than 0.5 mm long, the anthers ca 0.5-0.7 mm long, usually inconspicuously mucronate and often with 1 or few whitish setae at the apex; staminodes (9) 10(11), interstaminal, narrowly obovate, 1-2 mm long, densely.whitish-pilose; gynoecium 3.5-5.5 mm long, the ovary nar-rowly ovoid, ca 0.8-1.2 mm in diam at the base, densely whitish-pilose, gradually attenuate into the style, the latter pilose at base to glabrous at apex, the stigma capitate and densely papillate. Capsule ? globose, mucronate (base of style), 1-2 cm in diam, yellow at. maturity, blackish when dry, glabrous except the slightly pubescent apex; seeds conglutinate, to 5 mm long, the aril reddish or pinkish.
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