Small tree c. 6 m, glabrous; young branches reddish. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, ± acutely acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, red-brown when dry, shining, entire, very laxly or not pellucid-punctate and/or-striate, 10-15 by 2.5-3(-3.5) cm; midrib slightly raised above, prominent beneath, nerves 5-6 pairs, +-erect and excurrent along the leaf-margin, reticulations rather dense and prominent on both surfaces; petiole slender, 6-8(-10) mm. Flowers 1-2 per axil. Pedicels c. 3.5 mm, glabrous. Bracts few, very small. Calyx 2.5 mm, glabrous outside, minutely grey-velvety inside, lobes oblong, blunt, nearly as long as the calyx-tube. Stamens 8, equal; filaments thick, 0.8 mm, pilose at the base; anthers ovate, nearly as long as the filaments. Staminodes 0.5 mm, densely ferrugineous-hirsute. Ovary narrow-ovoid, pilose in the upper half only, 2 mm. Fruit narrow-obovoid to ellipsoid, compressed, 3.6-4 by 1.2-1.5 cm. Seeds obovoid.
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