Shrub 2 m; branchlets laxly beset with minute hairs, practically glabrous, nigrescent when dry, older parts covered with a thin grey cork. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 1 cm subacutely acuminate at the apex, cuneate into the very short petiole at the base, dark-brown when dry, dull, glabrous, subcoriaceous, the younger rather densely and minutely pellucid-punctate and-striate, mature ones ± without pellucid dots, (10-)12-18 by (5-)6-9 cm, entire to shallowly undulate; midrib prominent beneath, nerves c. 9 pairs, curved upwards toward the margin, prominent beneath, veins ± transverse and distant, a little raised beneath only; petiole rather thick, c. 2 mm, glabrous. Fascicles 3-4-flowered. Pedicels rather thick, c. 2 mm, glabrous. Bracts small, ciliate, 1 mm. Calyx 2 mm, deeply 5-lobed, glabrous in-and outside. Stamens 10; filaments filiform, glabrous, alternately 0.6 and 0.4 mm; anthers minute. Staminodes elongate-triangular, applanate, fimbriate at the apex, 0.5 mm. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 1.5 mm; style short but distinct. Immature fruit red, glabrous, on a 2-3 mm long peduncle.
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