A big shrub or treelet, 3-4 m, with flexuous white slender branches, quite glabrous. Leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, rather abruptly (1.5-2 cm) acuminate and mostly subacute at the apex, broadly attenuate to rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, flexuous, dark green to brownish when dry, shining on both surfaces, (10-)12-18 (-20) by (4.5-)5-8(-10) cm, very laxly or not pellucid-punctate and-striate, entire; midrib grooved or little prominent, strongly raised beneath, nerves c. 8 pairs curved-ascending, little or not prominent above, sharply so beneath, reticulations close, finely but distinctly raised on both faces; petiole rather slender, dark when dry, 6-10(-15) mm. Flowers pale-green or white, in mostly many-flowered fascicles. Bracts ovate, acuminate, subacute, 1 mm, pubescent. Pedicels slender, glabrous, 4-5 mm. Calyx 2-2.5 mm, glabrous in-and outside, lobes ovate-oblong. Stamens 8, equal; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1 mm; anthers minute. Staminodes subrectangular, a little flat, 0.5 mm, pilose at the apex. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, in fascicles of 2-3, yellow to orange when mature, 1.5-2 by 1 cm; peduncle 5 mm. Seeds few.
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