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Shrub or tree, up to 6 m high; bark greyish brown; branches hairy when young. Leaves variable in size and shape, margins serrate; upper surface shining, glabrous, venation conspicuous; lower surface mat, sparsely appressed-pubescent, venation prominent; petioles 2-7 mm long. Stipules truncate to subrounded at base; caducous. Inflorescences 1-6-flowered, lax to ± congested. Flowers yellowish, greenish, cream-coloured; 4-6-merous; pedicels 2-9 mm long. Calyx pubescent outside, glabrous inside; tube and lobes ± ovate-lanceolate. Corolla: lobes 4-8 mm long, spathulate, laciniate above, glabrous. Stamens 15-20; anthers ± ellipsoid-oblong. Ovary ovoid, 3-or 4-locular; style longer than ovary. Flowering time Aug.-Apr. Fruit an ± ellipsoid capsule. Seeds dark brown, aril reddish.
Leaf-lamina 3–10 x 1–5 cm., oblanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly to broadly elliptic, oblong, ovate or obovate; apex subacute, obtuse or short-to long-acuminate (rarely acute, rounded or retuse); margins serrate or rarely entire; base cuneate or obtuse, rarely rounded; superior surface ± shining, glabrous, with conspicuous venation; inferior surface mat, sparsely appressed-pubescent to glabrous (except on the midrib) and with ± prominent venation; petiole 2–7 mm. long, pubescent to glabrous; stipules truncate to subrounded at the base, abaxial surface densely appressed-pubescent to pubescent at the apex only, adaxial surface glabrous, soon caducuous.
Tree or shrub, up to 25 m high. Inflorescence 1-4(-6)-flowered. Leaves oblanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly to broadly elliptic, oblong, ovate or obovate; concolorous, margins serrate. Flowers yellowish green.
Shrub or tree up to 25 m. high; young stem ± appressed-pubescent to glabrescent (first year twigs sparsely hirsute); branches hairy when young and glabrous with age; bark greyish-yellow, grey or brown.
Calyx slightly pubescent to sericeous-pubescent outside and glabrous to slightly puberulous inside; calyx-tube 0·5–2 mm. long; calyx-lobes 3–6 mm. long, lanceolate, oblong or ovate-lanceolate.
Flowers 4–5(6)-merous; pedicels 2–5(9) mm. long, pubescent, articulate near the apex; bracteoles 1·5–2·5 mm. long, conchiform, rounded or lacerate at the apex and truncate at the base.
Ovary 1–2 mm. long, ovoid to ± spherical, 3–4-locular, glabrous to densely hirsute; style 3–5 mm. long, glabrous to pubescent mainly towards the base, persistent.
Stamens 15–20; filaments 3–6 mm. long; anthers c. 1 mm. long, narrowly to broadly ellipsoid-oblong.
Fruit 6–10 mm. long, ± ellipsoid, ovoid to subspherical, sericeous-pubescent to glabrous.
A tree. It grows 6-45 m tall. It has a small rounded crown.
Petals 4–8 mm. long, spathulate, laciniate above, glabrous.
Inflorescences l–4(6)-flowered, lax to ± congested.
