Shrub 1-1½ m; branchlets slender, terete, glabrous, the tips dark brown when dry. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, subfalcate, subacute or blunt at the apex, broadly cuneate into the petiole at the base, rigidly membranaceous to nearly subcoriaceous, not or minutely pellucid-punctate, entire, glabrous, somewhat shining and +-dark or blackish brown when dry, 12-17 by (2½-)3-5 cm; midrib nearly flat above, very prominent beneath, nerves c. 7-8 pairs, the inferior 4-5 pairs excurrent along the leaf-margin, the superior ones more distinctly curved and anastomosing, little raised above, more so beneath, veins transverse, venules ± visibly reticulated above, more distinctly so beneath; petiole glabrous, 3-4(-5) mm. Flowers greenish-white, several along and on top of short, thick, mostly solitary axes, these 3-4 mm long and densely set with minute, ovate, scariose bracts. Pedicel 1.5 mm. Calyx in all 2 mm long, 5-lobed to the middle, glabrous outside, puberulent inside. Stamens 10; filaments thickened, glabrous, alternately 0.9 and 0.6 mm. Staminodes very inconspicuous, represented by some hairs only. Ovary elongate-ovoid, 2 mm, pilose; stigma minute, capitellate. Fruit ellipsoid, red to orange, 2 by 1 cm.
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