Small tree up to 15 m tall, 15-20 cm diam. Leaves obovate or obovate-to elliptic-oblong, 4½-10 by 2.5-6 cm, apex obtuse, rounded or in emarginate, base cuneate; petiole 1-2.5 cm. Stipules 1.5-2.5 cm. Inflorescences usually in the axils of several nodes at the upper part of a branch, 3-5-flowered, head-like condensed. Calyx lobes erect both in flower and in fruit, ovate, acute, 3-4 mm, tube c. 2 mm high. Petals white, turning brownish, with broad base, folded longitudinally, hardly or not cohering, c. 2.5 mm long, fringe-like divided at the apex. Stamens 1 mm long, ± equal, anthers ovoid, seemingly much longer than the filaments as the erect anthers are dorsifixed. Fruit ovoid-conical, c. 1-1.75 cm long, calyx lobes obliquely erect or ascending; cotyledons red, finally protruding from the fruit for c. 2-4 mm; hypocotyl club-shaped, sharply angular and sulcate, 9-15 cm.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk is 30 cm across. The bark is pale brown. The flowers are white. The fruit are cone shaped and 1.8 cm long
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