Shrub or small tree to 7 m high; branchlets striate. Leaves: lamina elliptic or oblanceolate, rarely lanceolate, mostly 4–12 cm long and 1–4.5 cm wide, attenuate or narrowly cuneate at base, serrulate or serrate margin, acute, sometimes acuminate or rounded at apex, subcoriaceous; secondary veins 6–10 pairs; petiole 2–5 mm long. Inflorescence many-flowered; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Sepals ovate, concave, minutely erose, c.1 mm long. Petals oblong-obovate, concave, reflexed, c. 2.5 mm long, caducous. Staminal filaments c. 1.5 mm long. Ovary partly immersed in disc, 3-locular with 2 or 3, rarely 4, ovules per locule; style 2–2.5 mm long; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 3-locular, 3-valved, 10–17 mm long. Seed more than half surrounded by aril.
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