Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, 3–8(–15) m tall. Bark grayish or grayish brown; old branches gray or grayish brown, glabrous. Leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 5.5–8.2 × 2.5–3.5 cm, leathery, abaxially glabrous, sometimes pitted in axils of veins, veins 3 or 4, secondary lateral veins inconspicuous. Inflorescences ca. 8 mm in diam., 45–55-flowered; bracts obovate-elliptic, 3.5–4 × 1.8–2.5 cm, sparsely pubescent with brownish appressed fine trichomes. Calyx tube 0.7–0.9 mm, outside pubescent, with a whorl of reddish brown long trichomes at base. Petals ovate-elliptic, 2–2.5 × 0.8–1 mm, outside sparsely pubescent. Filaments 1.8–2 mm; anthers ellipsoid, ca. 0.6 mm. Style 0.7–0.9 mm, pubescent with short white trichomes. Compound fruit red at maturity, 1.5–2 cm in diam., peduncle 4.5–9 cm. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Nov.
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