Small shrub-like tree, 4-6 m; branchlets slender, minutely pubescent, dark brown, the elder parts greyish. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptic, mostly subabruptly obtusely acuminate at the apex, broadly attenuate to rounded at the base, chartaceous, brown and dull when dry, paler beneath, initially very laxly pilose on the midrib beneath, entirely glabrous at maturity, densely, minutely pellucid-punctate, entire, 8-16(-18) by 4-6(-8) cm; midrib a little impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves (4-)5-6(rarely up to 8) pairs, curved-ascending, obscure above, little raised beneath, veins distantly transverse, somewhat elevated beneath, reticulations ± distinct; petiole laxly pubescent, 4-7 mm. Fascicles few-flowered. Bracts broad-ovate, pubescent, 0.6 mm. Pedicels 1.5-2 mm, pubescent. Calyx yellowish-green, laxly pilose outside, glabrous inside, very pellucid-punctate, c. 3½ mm. Stamens 8, equal; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1.4 mm; anthers oblong-ovate, 0.8 mm. Staminodes oblong, thick, c. 0.9 mm, hirsute towards the apex only. Ovary ovoid, 1.2 mm, densely subferrugineous-pilose in the upper half, glabrous towards the base. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, yellow or reddish, glabrous, c. 1.2 by 0.8 cm; peduncle 2 mm. Seeds 8-12(-15), red, c. 5 mm.
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