Slender shrub up to 1.5 m. Branchlets light brown to reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, narrow elliptic-oblong, 8-9 by 2.25-2.5 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex acuminate; nerves 6-8 pairs, distinct beneath, obscure above, curved ascending; petiole almost absent, up to 3 mm. Inflorescences sessile or up to 3 mm peduncled, few-to many-flowered; pedicels 1 or 2 mm. Buds very acute. Flowers c. 10 mm long, articulated at the base. Calyx lobes ovate, 2.5-3 mm by 2 mm, very acute. Stamens subsessile, or with a very short filament; anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Disk ring-like. Ovary ellipsoid-oblong, 3 by 1 mm, glabrous; style obscure; stigma globose. Fruit (young) ovoid, 7 by 4 mm.
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