Tall shrub or small tree to 12 m. Leaves ovate, elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, entire, spinose in juveniles, the apex aristate and recurved, margins slightly recurved, undulate; lamina mostly 9-14 cm long and 4-6 cm wide; base decurrent; lateral veins 8-11 pairs. Cataphylls semicircular to broadly ovate, 2-3 mm long. Inflorescence 4-21 cm long; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Sepals ovate, 2-4 mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide. Petals oblong-spathulate, minutely fimbriate at apex, 2.4-3.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Staminodes oblong, denticulate at apex, 2-2.5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide. Drupe not seen.
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