Erect shrubs. Petiole 6-9 mm, robust, glabrous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 8-16 × 3-6.5 cm, papery or subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or obscurely toothed toward leaf apex, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate; lateral veins 10-12 pairs, obscure. Flowers not seen. Fruits paired, along upper parts of branchlets; fruiting pedicels ca. 2 mm; persistent sepals 6, ovate or elliptic-ovate, ca. 3.5 mm, margins ciliate; drupes oblong, ca. 12 × 7 mm, pubescent, not angular, apex attenuate, 1-celled, 1-seeded; exocarp leathery when dry; mesocarp woody; endocarp crustaceous; persistent style very short; stigma bifid, nearly flexed-flabellate. Seeds ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 5 mm. Fr. Aug-Sep.
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