Shrub or tree to 5 m; branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic, acute or acuminate, serrate, chartaceous; lamina mostly 5-10 cm long and 2-4.5 cm wide; base obtuse; secondary veins 4-7 pairs; petiole 1.5-3 mm long. Inflorescence rarely branched, to 10 mm long, few-flowered; pedicels glabrous, 3-8 mm long. Sepals 5, deltoid to ovate, ciliate, 1.2-1.4 mm long. Petals 5, suborbicular, 1.8-3 mm long. Disc ±flat, 5-notched, 1.2-1.5 mm diam. Staminal filaments c. 0.3 mm long. Ovary 5-locular with 8 ovules per locule; style c. 0.3 mm long. Capsule firmly coriaceous, globose, 5-locular, c. 1.5 cm diam.; columella short. Seeds 6-8 per locule, ellipsoidal, c. 7 mm long with an oblique narrow, fleshy, puberulous aril c. 4.5 mm long attached to base and side.
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