Shrub or small tree to 8 m high, glabrous. Leaves: lamina narrowly to broadly elliptic, rarely obovate, mostly 4–8 cm long and 1–3.5 cm wide, attenuate base, entire margin (dentate in juveniles), acuminate or rarely obtuse apex, subcoriaceous, often discolorous; secondary veins 7–9 pairs; petiole 0.5–1 cm long. Inflorescence cymose; pedicels 3–4 mm long. Sepals rounded, fringed, c. 1.3 mm long. Petals oblong, 3–3.5 mm long. Staminal filaments 1.3–3 mm long; anthers ± introrse. Ovary scarcely immersed in disc, imperfectly 3 (rarely 2 or 4)-locular with 8 (sometimes 6) ovules per locule; style to 1 mm long; stigma undivided or shortly 3-lobed. Capsule ovoid, rarely obovoid, 1.5–2.8 cm long, yellow; valves woody, 0.9–2 mm thick. Seed 5–6 mm long, enveloped in aril.
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