Shrub c. 2 m; young branches slender, pallid, pubescent at the tips, soon covered with peeling, greyish cork. Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 1 cm rather abruptly obtusely acuminate at the apex, very broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, ± equilateral, olivaceous when dry, somewhat shining above, dull beneath, ± firmly chartaceous, distinctly pellucid-punctate and-striate, minutely denticulate to nearly entire, 6-13 by (3i/2-)4-6 cm; midrib little prominent above, strongly so beneath and sometimes minutely pubescent at the base, nerves c. 1 pairs, rather straight-ascending and subparallel to each other, slightly impressed above, markedly prominent beneath, veins laxly transverse obscure above, little raised beneath; petiole glabrous or minutely pubescent, 3-5 mm. Flowers solitary. Pedicels stoutish, 2-2.5 mm. Bracts very small, few. Calyx-lobes elliptic-rounded, c. 4 mm, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous outside. Stamens 8 sub-equal; filaments filiform, glabrous, c. 1.5 mm; anthers minute, oblong. Staminodes triangular-oblong, truncate, thin and flat, c. 1.5 mm long, 0.7 mm wide at the base, pilose at the apex. Ovary glabrous, ovoid. Young fruit red, oblong, c.1.5 cm.
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