Shrub or very slender tree, (1-)1.5-5 m; young branchlets applanate, tips minutely pubescent, soon glabrescent, dark-brown to blackish when dry. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong to oblong, +-abruptly subacutely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base into the petiole, entire, firmly chartaceous, laxly pellucid-punctate and-lineate, glabrous, but sometimes very minutely pubescent along the midrib beneath, dark-brown to blackish-brown when dry, 6-8(-10) by 2.5-4.5 cm; midrib not or slightly raised above, distinctly so beneath, nerves (4-)5-6(-7) pairs, curved upwards, flat above, little prominent beneath, reticulations of veins and venules dense and little but markedly prominent on both surfaces specially beneath; petiole glabrous, c. 3 mm. Flowers greenish, 1 or 2 on top of a very short (1 mm) axis, this densely covered with membranous, pubescent bracts which do not conceal the pedicel. Pedicel rather slender, minutely pubescent, 2-2.5 mm. Calyx 1.5 mm, minutely pubescent outside, greyish-papillose or-velutinous inside, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments filiform, glabrous, alternately 0.5 and 0.3 mm. Staminodes very short triangular, densely pilose. Ovary narrow-ovoid, glabrous, 1.8 mm. Fruit (not seen) ovoid-subglobose, orange. Seeds few, aril blood-red.
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