Shrub 2–3 m high; branchlets striate. Leaves: lamina elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate, gently recurved, 0.5–3 cm long, 3–9 mm wide, shortly attenuate at base, remotely serrate or entire margin, acute to rounded, mucronate or emarginate at apex, subcoriaceous; secondary veins 4–8 pairs; petiole 0.6–1 mm long. Inflorescence raceme-like or flowers solitary; pedicels 2.5–3.5 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, denticulate, 0.6 mm long. Petals oblong or oblong-obovate, 3–3.5 mm long. Staminal filaments c. 1.5 mm long. Ovary conical, slightly immersed in disc, imperfectly 3-locular with 2, sometimes 4, centrally attached ovules per locule; style to 0.3 mm long; stigma minutely 3-lobed. Capsule ± woody, ovoid, 1-locular, 3-valved, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Seed almost enclosed in aril.
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