Shrub; branches flexuous, with pale bark, branchlets glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute at the apex, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, shining, brownish when dry, laxly pellucid-striate, not or obscurely pellucid-punctate, entire, midrib slightly prominent above, strongly so beneath; nerves 4-5(-6) pairs, nearly flat above, little raised beneath; reticulations dense and rather prominent on both sides; petiole 5-8 mm, slender. Fascicles c. 20-flowered. Bracts numerous, membranous, acute, ciliate. Pedicels 2-3 mm, slender, glabrous. Calyx 2.5 mm, glabrous. Stamens 8, equal; filaments glabrous, 0.8 mm; anthers apiculate by the thick connective. Staminodes oblong-linear, villous at the tips only, 0.5 mm. Ovary glabrous c. 1.6 mm. Fruit ellipsoid, said to be apricot-coloured when fresh, c. 1.8 cm long; peduncle 5 mm.
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