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Leaf-lamina mostly 4·5–7 x 2–3 cm., elliptic to obovate, papyraceous to leathery; apex obtuse to acute and ± acuminate; margins entire or remotely serrate (specially above the middle); base acute, ± long-cuneate; midrib ± curving towards the apex, lateral nerves and reticulation moderately conspicuous; superior surface shining and glabrous; inferior surface mat and very sparsely appressed pubescent to glabrous; petiole 1–6 mm. long, hirtellous to glabrous; stipules 3–5 mm. long, ovate to lanceolate, obtuse at the apex and truncate at the base, appressed pubescent to glabrescent outside, soon caducous.
Flowers 4–5-merous; pedicels 1–2 mm. long, shortly hirsute, articulate near the apex; bracteoles 1–2 mm. long, conchiform, obovate, truncate to rounded at the apex, truncate at the base, slightly appressed pubescent on abaxial surface.
Shrub or tree up to 15 m. high; young stem and branches very shortly and rather sparsely appressed-hirsute, glabrous with age; bark brown to grey, ± smooth, somewhat corky.
Ovary c. 1·5 mm. long, subspherical, 3–4-locular, densely white-to ± yellowish-sericeous throughout; style 2–2·5 mm. long, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, persistent.
Fruit 5 mm. long, subspherical to ovoid, densely velvety with intermixed scattered longer hairs near the apex.
Calyx densely to appressed pubescent outside and sparsely puberulous to appressed pubescent inside.
Calyx-tube 1–1·5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 3–4 mm. long, narrowly triangular to ± ovate.
Stamens c. 20; filaments 2–4 mm. long; anthers 1 mm. long, ellipsoid-oblong.
Petals 3–6 mm. long, spathulate, laciniate above, white, glabrous.
Inflorescences 1–3-flowered, ± lax.
