Shrub to 4.5 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves: lamina narrowly elliptic, ovate or obovate, mostly 1–8 cm long and 1.5–15 mm wide, acute or attenuate base, serrulate or entire margin, acuminate, mucronate or acute apex, subcoriaceous; secondary veins mostly 5–8 pairs; petiole 1–2 mm long. Flowers axillary or lateral, solitary, or in fascicles of 2 or 3, or in racemes; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Sepals 5, deltoid, dentate or fringed. Petals 5, broadly ovate, 1.5–2 mm long. Stamens 5; filaments tapered, 1.3–2 mm long. Disc 1–1.8 mm diam. Ovary glabrous, 2-locular; style c. 0.5 mm long; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule obovoid to globular, 3.5–8 mm long, 3.5–8 mm wide, 2-valved. Seeds 1–4, surrounded by an aril.
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